General sequence of configuring an evidence provider

You must know the end-to-end process of creating a custom evidence provider, populating the evidence database, and running the Evidence Collection job.

The end-to-end sequence of creating to collecting evidence data is as follows:

Create a CSV file that contains the evidence data as per the required format.

See Creating a CSV file for evidence data collection .
Place the CSV file in the network data location.

You must ensure that the data location is a network share path.

See Associating a data location with the evidence provider.
Add a custom evidence provider through the Evidence Management system.

See Adding a custom evidence provider.
Populate the table, ThirdPartyEvaluationInstances with data of the EvaluationType field of the CSV file.

The Symantec's Professional Services would perform the task of populating the table for you.
By default, the role, CCS_Administrator has the permission to run the Evidence Collection job. You can also create a specific role and assign the tasks to the role that are required to run the Evidence Collection job.

See About setting tasks to roles for evidence collection.
Set the password for the Data Collection User Name and Password option in the Home > User Preference view of the console.

See Adding credentials for scheduled jobs.
Run the Evidence Collection job from the Manage > Jobs view of the console.

See Scheduling jobs.

You must have scheduled the Evidence Collection job when adding the custom evidence provider.