About a custom evidence provider

A custom evidence provider is a comma separated value (CSV) file, which contains the evidence data of the assets. Control Compliance Suite collects the evidence data from the CSV file and stores them in the evidence database. By default, the infrastructure creates a database, CSM_EvidenceDB in the SQL server. The evidence collection job is executed to collect the evidence data from the custom evidence provider.

A custom evidence provider, which is a CSV file contains the asset information and the evidence data. Data in the CSV file must be arranged in a specific format for easy interpretation by the infrastructure.

See Creating a CSV file for evidence data collection .

The CSV file must be placed in a network share of the computer for letting the Evidence Management system to collect the evidence data for reporting.

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Associating a data location with the evidence provider

Adding a custom evidence provider

General sequence of configuring an evidence provider