13.1 Elements of a Dynamic Report

The Web console builds a dynamic report according to the following elements, which you specify in the report definition:

Assets

Helps you identify which IT assets are important for the particular dynamic report.

You can specify individual endpoints or groups of endpoints. The endpoints can be of different types, such as UNIX operating systems, Windows operating systems, SQL Server database, and Oracle database.

Policy Templates

Helps you define the type of security check results that you want to review for the specified assets.

Depending on your chosen assets, you might specify policy templates. As a best practice, you might want to narrow the scope to a specific technical standard or security policy, such as PCI compliance.

Time range

Narrows the scope of the policy template results to data returned within a specific range of time. For example, the last seven days.

If a chosen policy template has run more than once during the specified time frame, the Web console gathers results from the most recent run.

NOTE:If you have recently added assets or just begun using Secure Configuration Manager, it is possible that the chosen policy templates might not have run in the specified time frame. When this occurs, the generated report would not contain data or not have data for all of the chosen endpoints.