Submitting a question to determine associated risk

When you submit a question, the resulting information depends on the data that is queried; assets or devices and rules. After a Policy Monitor question is submitted, you can view how long the question takes to run.

About this task

The time that is required to run the policy also indicates how much data is queried. For example, if the execution time is 3 hours, then 3 hours of data is queried. You can view the time in the Policy Execution Time column to determine an efficient interval frequency to set for the questions that you want to monitor. For example, if the policy execution time is 3 hours, then the policy evaluation interval must be greater than 3 hours.

Important: When you edit a question after it is submitted, and the edit affects associated tests, it might take up to an hour to view those changes.

Procedure

  1. Click the Risks tab.
  2. From the navigation menu, click Policy Monitor.
  3. Select the question that you want to submit.
  4. Click Submit Question.