---
title: "CIs"
description: "Find a CI, see what Guardian knows about it, and act on it."
product: "Guardian"
edition: "Essentials"
type: "overview"
url: "https://docs.cloudhouse.com/guardian/essentials/cis/"
---
# CIs

**All CIs** lists every CI Guardian monitors. Open one to see its latest scan, its history, its compliance and its drift.

## Find a CI

![All CIs, with the summary cards above the list](https://docs.cloudhouse.com/guardian/essentials/assets/screenshots/all-cis.png)

**All CIs** has two tabs: **Managed**, the CIs Guardian scans, and **Detected**, CIs discovered or imported but not yet managed. Search by name, filter by group, environment or source (**All**, **Local**, **AWS**), and filter by state. Select **Details** on a row to open the CI.

Select CIs with the checkboxes to act on several at once: **Compare**, **Scan Selected**, **Set Environment**, **Set as baseline** or **Delete**.

## What a CI shows

![A CI's page, on its Overview tab](https://docs.cloudhouse.com/guardian/essentials/assets/screenshots/ci-detail.png)

The header shows whether the CI is online, when it was last scanned, its environment and whether it's linked to ServiceNow. Below it, a summary gives the compliance score and the changes and issues found. The tabs hold the detail:

| Tab | What it shows |
|-----|---------------|
| Overview | What changed since the last scan, and the policies the CI is failing. |
| Monitored Elements | What the latest scan recorded, element by element. Expand an element to see its properties. |
| Policies | How the CI fared against each policy on its most recent scan. |
| Benchmarks | Benchmark results, once a benchmark is assigned to one of the CI's groups and its schedule has run. |
| History | Every scan of this CI. Pick one to view it as it was; **Return to latest** takes you back. |
| Scan Options | What Guardian scans on this CI. |

If the last scan failed, the reason is shown at the top.

## Things you can do

Scan it now
:   Select **Run Scan Now**. The scan is queued and runs shortly.

Compare scans
:   Select **Compare with previous scan**, or pick two scans from the history, to see every property that differs.

Set a baseline
:   Pin the scan you're viewing as this CI's known-good state with **Set as baseline**. A CI has one baseline, so setting a new one replaces the old. You can set it for several CIs at once from **All CIs**.

Set its environment
:   Select **Set Environment** to move the CI to another environment, or create a new one from the same dialog.

Link it to a CMDB CI
:   Select **Set CMDB CI** beside *Not linked to ServiceNow*, and search your ServiceNow CMDB by name or IP address. This needs the [ServiceNow integration](https://docs.cloudhouse.com/guardian/essentials/integrations/servicenow/index.md). **Unlink CMDB CI** removes the link.

!!! note "Good to know"
    Benchmarks are assessed on their own schedule, not with each scan. A newly assigned benchmark shows no results for a CI until that schedule has run.