Adding a custom evidence provider

You must register the evidence provider with the Control Compliance Suite for initiating evidence data collection. The evidence provider is a CSV file. The file must be placed in the network share path and configured through the Data Location option of the console's System Configuration view.

See Associating a data location with the evidence provider.

To add a custom evidence provider

Go to Settings > Evidence Management.
In the Evidence Management view, right-click and select Add Custom Evidence Provider.
In the Add New Evidence Provider dialog box, provide the values for the following tabs:
- General
- Schedule
  
  You can schedule the Evidence Collection job in this dialog box and run the job from the Job Management view of the console.
- Advanced
See Add or Edit Custom Evidence Provider.
Click OK.

An evidence collection job is created. The evidence collection job collects the evidence data at the configured scheduled time.

See About jobs.