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Editing the results of a compliance check

Compliance standards might contain manual checks related to specific physical conditions in the environment being checked for compliance. For example, these checks can relate to security systems or separate server rooms. These manual checks are marked as non-compliant per the rules in BMC Database Automation by default, and counts towards the percentage of compliance displayed in the Compliance % field. For example, the results of a standard that was run on a database host, two checks might have a status of MANUAL. Because those two checks are considered non-compliant out of a total of 5 checks, the Compliance % displayed is 60%. However, security audits might require 100% compliance, so you need a way to mark these manual checks as compliant before submitting the report to auditors.

You can update the results of these manual checks, upon physical verification or approval, and designate them as Manual Compliant or Manual Non-compliant. The Compliance % calculation, which can be used for compliance auditing purposes, will then reflect the results accordingly.

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Only users with the Edit Compliance Results capability can edit the results of a compliance check. This capability enables the user to run the job that modifies the compliance rule.

To edit the results of the manual check:

  1. From the details page, click Edit Results.
  2. In the General page, change the result of a Compliance Rule by doing one of the following:
    1. To change the status of one or more rules individually, select the desired result in the Result menu corresponding to that rule.
    2. To change all the rules to a status of COMPLIANT, click Set All Compliant.
    3. To change all the rules to a status of NON-COMPLIANT, click Set All Non Compliant.
  3. Click Modify Results and click OK on the confirmation dialog.
  4. In the Verification page, click Continue.
    After the job has completed, you can check the job log by clicking View Log In the Information page. The log details information that can be used for an audit trail such as the name of the user who modified the standard, the start and end time of the job, and the original results before they were changed. The details page of the host on which the standard was modified also reflects the change.

 

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BMC Database Automation 8.9