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Compliance reports

Compliance reports show how accurately servers are configured in relation to the compliance rules specified in component templates.

These reports provide overview and detailed information about the compliance data. This information is derived from the Compliance Job runs in 

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servers. Reports contain information such as server compliance, policy compliance, number of compliant and non-compliant servers, and compliance trends.

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This topic lists built-in Compliance reports. For information about ad hoc reports, see the BMC BladeLogic Decision Support for Server Automation User Guide: Report Authoring at PDFs.

Two Regulatory dashboards show data from the compliance contents supplied by BMC. If you use compliance content supplied by BMC, you can use these dashboards for regulatory policies such as CIS, DISA, HIPPA, PCI, and SOX.

Set up the BMC Server Automation jobs needed to support the Compliance reports by using the performing the following tasks:

  1. Identify the compliance rules against which you want to validate the servers in your data center and create the compliance policy using these rules.
     You can also use compliance templates supplied by BMC to validate standard regulatory compliance of your servers.
  2. Set up the Compliance Jobs to monitor the compliance of servers or snapshots against policies defined in the previous step.

The following table summarizes the built-in Compliance reports. You can start with the Compliance Dashboard report to view the information and use drill-through columns to view detailed Compliance information.

Built-in Compliance reports

Report/Description

Fields

Drill-through fields

Prompts

Compliance Dashboard
Shows the graphical and tabular monthly trends for compliance activities grouped by OS. This report also provides the monthly compliance percentage in your environment.

  • #Policies
  • Servers Attempted
  • Compliant Servers
  • Non Compliant Servers
  • Unknown Servers
  • %Compliance
  • #Policies: Drill-through on this column takes you to the Compliance Summary By Policy report.
  • Servers Attempted: Drill-through on this column takes you to the Compliance Summary By Server report.
  • Compliant Servers: Drill-through on this column takes you to the Compliance Summary By Server report.
  • Non Compliant Servers: Drill-through on this column takes you to the Compliance Summary By Server report.
  • Unknown Servers: Drill-through on this column takes you to the Compliance Summary By Server report.

Date Range

Compliance Summary By Policy
Summarizes the compliance results for servers for a policy over a selected time interval.

  • Template(Policy) Name
  • Job Name
  • Job Run Start Time
  • Rules Defined
  • Servers Attempted
  • Compliant Servers
  • Non Compliant Servers
  • Unknown Servers
  • %Compliance
  • Template(Policy) Name: Drill-through on the template name takes you to the Compliance Trend By Policy report.
  • Servers Attempted: Drill-through on this column takes you to the Compliance Summary By Server report.
  • Compliant Servers: Drill-through on this column takes you to the Compliance Summary By Server report.
  • Non Compliant Servers: Drill-through on this column takes you to the Compliance Summary By Server report.
  • Unknown Servers: Drill-through on this column takes you to the Compliance Summary By Server report.
  • Date Range
  • Show only latest run data
  • Policy Name

Compliance Summary By Server
Summarizes the compliance results for policies for a server over a selected time interval.

  • Server Name
  • Template(Policy) Name
  • Job Name
  • Job Run Start Time
  • Rules Checked
  • Rules Compliant
  • Rules Compliant with Exception
  • Rules Non Compliant
  • Rules Indeterminate
  • %Compliance
  • Server Name: Drill-through on the server name takes you to the Compliance Trend By Server report.
  • Rules Checked: Drill-through on this column takes you to the Detailed Compliance Report.
  • Rules Compliant: Drill-through on this column takes you to the Detailed Compliance Report.
  • Rules Non Compliant: Drill-through on this column takes you to the Detailed Compliance Report.
  • Rules Indeterminate: Drill-through on this column takes you to the Detailed Compliance Report.
  • Date Range
  • Show only latest run data
  • OS Name
  • Server Name

Detailed Compliance Report
Provides detailed information for the compliance rules for a policy on the server over a selected time interval.

  • Template (Policy) Name
  • Job Name
  • Server Name
  • Job Run Start Time
  • Rule Group Name
  • Rule Name
  • Rule Definition
  • Rule Status

None

  • Date Range
  • Show only latest run data
  • Policy Name
  • OS Name
  • Server Name
  • Job Name
  • Rule Name
  • Run Status

Detailed Exceptions Report
Provides detailed information for the compliance rules having exceptions for a policy over a selected time interval.

  • Template (Policy) Name
  • Job Name
  • Server Name
  • Job Run Start Time
  • Rule Group Name
  • Rule Name
  • Rule Definition
  • Exception Name
  • Expiration Date

None

  • Date Range
  • Show only latest run data
  • Policy Name
  • OS Name
  • Server Name
  • Job Name
  • Rule Name

Compliance Trend By Policy
Provides a graphical and tabular view of the compliance percentage and compliant servers for a policy over a selected time interval.

  • Template(Policy) Name
  • Servers Attempted
  • Compliant Servers
  • Non Compliant Servers
  • %Compliance
  • Servers Attempted: Drill-through on this column takes you to the Compliance Summary By Server report.
  • Compliant Servers: Drill-through on this column takes you to the Compliance Summary By Server report.
  • Non Compliant Servers: Drill-through on this column takes you to the Compliance Summary By Server report.
  • Date Range
  • Policy Name

Compliance Trend By Server
Provides a graphical and tabular view of the compliance data for a server for all policies over a selected time interval.

  • Server Name
  • Rules Checked
  • Rules Compliant
  • Rules Non Compliant
  • %Compliance
  • Rules Checked: Drill-through on this column takes you to the Detailed Compliance Report report.
  • Rules Compliant: Drill-through on this column takes leads to the Detailed Compliance Report report.
  • Rules Non Compliant: Drill-through on this column takes you to the Detailed Compliance Report report.
  • Date Range
  • OS Name
  • Server Name

Regulatory Dashboard: Regulatory Compliance Policy Dashboard
Provides a graphical and tabular view of the regulatory compliance policies for latest job run data by policy type (for example, DISA and HIPPA) across all OS types. The dashboard includes the number of compliant and non-compliant servers, unknown servers, and the compliance percentage for a compliance policy type.

  • Policy Type
  • Compliant Servers
  • Non Compliant Servers
  • Unknown Servers
  • % Server Compliance
  • Rules Compliant
  • Rules Compliant with Exception
  • Rules Non Compliant
  • Rules Indeterminate
  • Rules Checked
  • %Rule Compliant

Policy Type: Drill-through on this column takes you to the Regulatory Dashboard: Regulatory Compliance Policy (OS) Dashboard report.

None

Regulatory Dashboard: Regulatory Compliance Policy (OS) Dashboard
Provides a graphical and tabular view of the regulatory compliance policies for latest job run data by policy. The dashboard includes the number of compliant and non-compliant servers, unknown servers, and the compliance percentage for a compliance policy type

  • Policy Type
  • Policy Name
  • Job Run Start Time
  • Compliant Servers
  • Non Compliant Servers
  • Unknown Servers
  • % Server Compliance
  • Rules Compliant
  • Rules Compliant with Exception
  • Rules Non Compliant
  • Rules Indeterminate
  • %Rule Compliance
  • Compliant Servers: Drill-through on this column takes you to the Compliance Summary By Server report.
  • Non Compliant Servers: Drill-through on this column takes you to the Compliance Summary By Server report.

Policy Name

 

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