Components of Control Compliance Suite

Control Compliance Suite (CCS) consists of several main components.

The following is the list of components with a brief description:

Control Compliance Suite Application Server

The CCS Application Server is responsible for all job executions, work flow, and schedules.

See About the Control Compliance Suite Application Server.

Control Compliance Suite Directory Server

The CCS Directory Server hosts the CCS directory, the Management Service, the Directory Support Service, and the Certificate Management Console.

See About the Control Compliance Suite Directory Server.

Control Compliance Suite Directory

The CCS directory stores asset data, user rights and preferences, and information about jobs.

See About the Control Compliance Suite directory.

Control Compliance Suite Console

The CCS console is the primary user interface component that makes data requests and expects data responses.

See About the Control Compliance Suite Console.

Data Processing Service (DPS)

A single service that plays multiple roles in CCS. The roles include the DPS Collector, the DPS Evaluator, the DPS Load Balancer, and the DPS Reporter.

See About the Control Compliance Suite Data Processing Service.

Management Service

The Management Service is a Certificate Authority service that is responsible to generate, manage, and sign certificates.

See About the Control Compliance Suite Management Service.

Web portal

The Web portal is used to distribute policy notifications, to approve entitlements, to request exceptions, and to view reports.

See About the Control Compliance Suite Web Portal.

Production database

The production database is a SQL Server instance that stores the data that is collected from assets. These assets are based on a query and the results of an evaluation job.

See About the Control Compliance Suite production database.

Reporting database

The reporting database stores evaluation data. The DPS reporter uses the stored evaluation data.

See About the Control Compliance Suite reporting database.

Evidence database

The evidence database stores evidence of your compliance with policies defined in the Control Compliance Suite console.

See About the Control Compliance Suite evidence database.