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title: Setting a Host’s Asset Criticality
slug: rbvm-help/setting-a-hosts-asset-criticality
createdAt: 2026-10-26T13:51:24.377Z
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**Summary**: How to set a host’s asset criticality.

Asset criticality ranges from one to five, with five being the most critical. Use asset criticality to implement SLAs and due dates based on how important an asset is to your organization’s operation.

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Users must have the IAM privilege **Host Modify** to set a host’s asset criticality.
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To set a host’s asset criticality, navigate to the **Manage > Hosts** page.

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On the *Hosts* page, select the host(s) to modify asset criticality by clicking the check box in the page's first column. You may choose more than one host at a time.

![Selecting two hosts on te Hosts page to set their asset criticality.](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/9rfvxhrv8FA-8bxcK2IRv/UmlrxZmbWD27zpvX0FdTO_host-asset-criticality-select-hosts.png)

Click the **Actions** button.

![Location of the Actions button on the Host page.](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/9rfvxhrv8FA-8bxcK2IRv/8RhqLR2gWuLo53EUsCdQK_host-asset-criticality-actions-button-location.png)

In the *Actions* drop-down menu, click **Set Asset Criticality**.

![Set Asset Criticality menu location under the Actions menu on the Host page.](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/9rfvxhrv8FA-8bxcK2IRv/ECTaMMnFyU52QzOKsOfCF_host-asset-criticality-set-asset-criticality-menu-location.png)

Select your desired asset criticality in the *Set Asset Criticality* window, ranging from one to five, with five being the most critical. Once complete, click **Save**.

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This action updates the selected host(s) asset criticality.