Web-Based Application Menus

This Getting Started guide is designed to help you navigate the main Mend GUI dashboard and menu options, in order to get up and running quickly with mend.

The Web-based GUI provides you with numerous menu options and panels to view and analyze the scans of your open-source software in the organization's products and projects. Administrators can customize the system settings, manage the additional users' permissions, and configure the integration with third-party components.

The following table provides an overview of the options that you can access from the menu bar at the top of the Mend Home page.

Main Menu Item	Sub Menu Item	Description	For details, see ……	See also…..
Home		Main page that opens after you log in. Provides immediate visibility of your organization’s open source inventory (open source files), together with potential security vulnerabilities, license compliance, and easy to understand dashboards.	Understanding the Home Page	Understanding Projects, Products, and Organizations Understanding and Managing Vulnerabilities The Vulnerabilities Report
Dashboards			The Dashboards Menu
	Library Search	Search for libraries in an organization in order to view their details.	Searching for Libraries
	Requests	The Requests Dashboard features a variety of options that provide a complete view of the status of requests in your organization.	Requests Dashboard	Understanding Update Requests
	Licenses	The Licenses Dashboard provides a complete view of the status of licenses in your organization.	Licenses Dashboard	License Resolution Research Definitions Understanding Risk Score Attribution and License Analysis
	Security Trends	The Security Trends Dashboard provides a view of the organizational security posture over time, based on: Number of open security vulnerabilities Average remediation and handling time of security vulnerabilities Effect of newly published vulnerabilities NOTE: This dashboard is intended mainly for the organization's administrators, security officers, and application R&D managers.	Security Trends Dashboard
	Containers	The Containers dashboard provides a clear view of the Kubernetes resources along with the ability to filter, sort, and view the vulnerabilities per pod in a cluster.	Containers Dashboard	Mend for Containers
	Set Organizational Attribute Values	Apply attribute values to libraries in an organization.	Managing Custom Attributes
Products		From the Products dropdown menu, you can view a dashboard detailing a product’s open-source status (alerts, vulnerability & license analysis, associated libraries, pending tasks, and so on).	Working with Products	Understanding Projects, Products, and Organizations Understanding the Library Details Page
	View All	View all the products in an organization and when they were created. You can select a product to view a dashboard showing its open-source status.
	Admin Products	View a list of projects associated with the products in the organization. You can select a product to view a dashboard showing its open-source status.
	+ New Product	Create a new product.
	Search Product	Search for a specific product.
	Last Used Products	View the last-used products for quick access to view a dashboard detailing the product’s open source status
Projects		From the Projects dropdown menu, you can view a dashboard detailing a project’s open-source status (alerts, vulnerability & license analysis, associated libraries, pending tasks, and so on).	Working with Projects	Understanding Projects, Products, and Organizations Understanding the Library Details Page
	View All	View all the projects in an organization and when they were created. You can select a project to view its open source status.
	Search Project	Search for a specific project.
	Last Used Projects	View the last-used projects for quick access to view a dashboard detailing the project’s open source status.
Policies		From the Policies menu, you can manage and enforce policy rules in an organization. You can create workflows to enforce your company rules for security and compliance.	Managing Automated Policies

Alerts		From the Alerts menu, you can manage alerts which notify users about licensing and vulnerability open-source issues.	Managing Alerts	Licensing and Compliance Alerts Security Alerts: View by Vulnerability Security Alerts: View by Library

Reports		From the Reports menu, you can generate reports that provide information on security vulnerabilities and alerts, detailed compliance information, library licenses information and implications, various risk factors, and more.	Working with Mend Reports Working with Administrator Reports

Integrate		From the Integrate menu, you can do the following: View important information about your organization & its environment, including the organization’s unique API key. Find the product token for each product in the organization which uniquely identifies it. Find the project token for each project in the organization which uniquely identifies it. Configure Advanced Settings for your organization, such as, configuring user level access control, how to store and manage unmatched source files in mend, and more. View and configure all the integrations that are supported by the Unified Agent. Generate an activation key for an Azure DevOps Server (TFS) Integration. View and configure Mend developer integrations.	Unified Agent Integrations Azure DevOps Server (TFS) Integration Developer Integrations	Matching Libraries by Filename Managing Unmatched Source Files User Level Access Control in Integrations and APIs

Admin		From the Admin menu, you can configure: Settings for Alerts, In-House Libraries, Library Whitelists, Custom Attributes, Notifications, Security, Maven Dependency Resolutions General system settings for Users, Groups, Role Assignments, view a history of User Logins, and more. Settings for Mend integrations: Advise for Chrome Management Upload Update Request SAML Integration Issue Tracker Settings GitHub WebHooks integration Integration Workflow Rules	Managing Custom Attributes Managing In-House Rules Managing Library Whitelist Rules Configuring Notifications Settings Using Version in Product or Project Names Issue Tracker Integration (Legacy) Mend SAML 2.0 Integration Issue Tracker Integration Generic Platform and Plugins