Add or Edit Custom Evidence Provider

A custom evidence provider provides evidence data to the Control Compliance Suite. The evidence provider is a comma separated (CSV) file that contains the evidence data for reporting.

You can add or edit evidence data through the Add New Evidence Provider dialog box.

The Add New Evidence Provider dialog box contains the following three tabs:

General
Schedule
Advanced

The fields and their descriptions for the General tab of the dialog box are as follows:

Display Name	Enter the display name of the evidence provider. This field is mandatory.
Description	Enter a description for the evidence provider.

The fields and their descriptions for the Schedule tab of the dialog box are as follows:

Evidence Collection Schedule

Set a schedule to collect the evidence data from the evidence provider.

Select the option, Enable evidence collection at and set the time in the corresponding field. By default, the evidence collection job is scheduled for 12a.m daily.

The scheduled job can be run from the Job Management view.

Retention Age

Provide the retention age of the evidence data in the evidence database.

Select the number of days as the retention age for the option, Retain evidence data for the last.

Note:

By default, the retention age is 7days. You can configure the retention age of the evidence data from a minimum of 1 day to a maximum of 366 days.

The fields and their descriptions for the Advanced tab of the dialog box are as follows:

Site

Enter the name of the site that is associated with the DPS, which is configured for data collection.

Note:

Ensure that you associate the correct site for the evidence provider. As the evidence provider is a CSV file, the site name specified for this field and in the CSV file must be same.

Data Location

Select the data location from the drop-down box.

All the configured data locations are listed for this field.

See System Configuration - Data Locations.

The data location must contain the CSV file, which is the evidence provider.

Add Reconciliation Rules

Select the Add Reconciliation Rules icon in the dialog box.

The Add reconciliation rules, that are created during an asset import job appears in this dialog box. You cannot create reconciliation rules of any other type for the Evidence Management system. Whenever a new asset is to be imported into the Control Compliance Suite infrastructure for evidence data collection, you must use the Add reconciliation rule to add the asset.

See Reconciliation rules and rule types.