Suggested prompts – Help Center | Core6

Applies to: StorageGuard 10.1 and later / All users

When you open the AI Assistant, it offers ready-made prompts in four categories. Click a category, then a prompt to send it as is, or edit it first. Prompts that mention CI (configuration item) refer to a single system: replace CI with the system's name.

In this article

Explanation & Guidance
Findings & Baseline Compliance
Reports
Scan & Troubleshooting
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Explanation & Guidance

How StorageGuard works and how to configure it. Answers come from the StorageGuard documentation built into the assistant.

Prompt	What you get
`What can you help me with?`	The topics and tasks the assistant can handle.
`Explain RBAC and user scoping`	How roles, permissions and scoped users control what each user can see and do.
`How to configure Database Views feature?`	How to enable Database Views and query StorageGuard data from your reporting tools.
`How do I onboard an ONTAP cluster?`	The steps to connect a NetApp ONTAP cluster, including the account and access it needs. Works for any supported system type.
`How do I create my own security standard?`	How to build a standard or baseline policy from your own selection of checks.
`Explain email integration`	How StorageGuard sends notifications and reports by email, and how to set it up.
`Explain ServiceNow integration`	How StorageGuard creates and updates ServiceNow records from findings.
`Explain custom checks`	What custom checks are, and the ways to create them.
`Explain finding lifecycle management`	How findings move from open to fixed, accepted or suppressed, and what each state means.
`Explain collector deployment`	When you need collectors, and how to install and register them.

Findings & Baseline Compliance

Questions about the current state of your systems, findings and vulnerabilities.

Prompt	What you get
`Is the CI compliant with CIS Control v8?`	The system's compliance with CIS Controls v8, with the failing checks.
`List all CVEs open on a CI`	The open vulnerabilities on one system, with severity and CVSS score.
`Explain the risk`	A plain-language explanation of a finding: what is misconfigured and why it matters. Use it from a finding, or name the finding.
`Explain how to fix this risk`	Remediation steps for a finding, including commands where StorageGuard has them.
`Show the top 3 open security findings`	The three most severe open findings across your environment.
`Show the top 3 systems affected by high or critical security advisories`	The systems most exposed to high and critical vulnerabilities.
`Show the top 3 easiest findings to fix`	Quick wins: open findings with straightforward remediation.
`Suggest 5 additional configuration checks to add to my policies`	Checks from the StorageGuard catalog that your policies don't use yet, and why each is worth adding.

Reports

Summaries across many systems, ready to share.

Prompt	What you get
`Generate a storage user access configuration report`	User accounts, roles and access settings across your storage systems.
`Generate a storage data-at-rest encryption report`	Which storage systems encrypt data at rest, and which don't.
`Generate a backup data-at-rest encryption report`	The same, for backup systems.
`Summarize NTP server configuration across systems`	The NTP servers each system uses, highlighting inconsistencies.
`Summarize deployed Storage OS versions`	Operating system and firmware versions across your storage systems.
`Generate a compliance summary for this CI`	Severity breakdown and risk score for one system.

Scan & Troubleshooting

Problems with data collection: failed analysis tasks, missing permissions and connectivity.

Prompt	What you get
`Summarize all the commands that were failed during the scan`	The commands that failed during the last analysis task, with their errors.
`Explain why the scan failed on CI`	The likely cause of a failed analysis task on one system, and what to check.
`Scan history for CI`	Past analysis tasks for one system: date, status, collector and task name.
`Show missing permissions / credentials issues`	Systems where StorageGuard lacks the permissions or credentials it needs.

Write your own

The suggested prompts are starting points. See Ask your own questions for tips, and Common tasks with the AI Assistant for longer examples.

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