Compliance entities
Compliance Administration refers to the management of compliance entities which require configuration in order for the Netcool Configuration Manager compliance functionality to execute correctly. In addition Compliance Administration describes the relationship between each of these entities. Compliance entities encompass the compliance process, compliance policy, compliance definition, compliance rule, and the corrective action.
Each compliance entity has an important role to play in the compliance
validation process:
- Event
- An event triggers a compliance validation process to run.
- Compliance Process
- A compliance process coordinates the execution of all regularly scheduled compliance validations, and can also be used for the ad-hoc validation of a group of policies. A ompliance process can be triggered by a number of different events.
- Compliance Policy
- A compliance policy specifies conditions that the devices must adhere to. A compliance policy describes the validation process in English rather than configuration lines.
- Compliance Definition
- Compliance definition captures the actual device configuration expected on the device.
- Compliance Rule
- A compliance rule allows the user to combine multiple compliance definitions to build the full validation, to which a device must adhere in order to pass a compliance test.
- Compliance Extraction
- A compliance extraction has the ability to extract chunks of data from a native/modelled configuration or a show command.
- Corrective Action
- A corrective action may be defined for a policy or rule, and specifies the action to be taken if a specific device violates the policy.
- Policy Exemption
- A policy exemption is available in the event that a device or a number of devices should temporarily be excluded from the execution of a policy.
All of the compliance entities can be maintained in the same way using the Administration Panel, which is available by right-clicking on any entity type. A drag-and-drop functionality is also available to speed up the process of moving a compliance entity from one folder to another.