Running a Collection-Evaluation-Reporting (CER) job from Standards workspace

The collection-evaluation-reporting job lets you create a common job to schedule data collection, evaluation, and report generation. While scheduling, you can also specify a time out duration for the job. The time out duration, in minutes, is applicable to the agent-based assets and specifies the duration up to which the data collection job can run for every asset in that job. When the job exceeds the specified time out duration for an asset, the job is aborted and the partial results are discarded. The time taken by the job depends on various factors such as, the number of entities or data sources included in the query, network latency, performance of the agent host and so on. The default value of 0 indicates no time out.
  1. To run a collection-evaluation-reporting job
  2. On the CCS console, hover over the
    Standards and Policies
    menu, and click
    Standards
    .
  3. In the
    Standards
    workspace, select the standard that you want to include in your CER job, right-click the standard, and then click
    Run Collection-Evaluation-Reporting
    from the context menu.
  4. In the
    Create or Edit Collection-Evaluation-Reporting Job
    wizard, on the
    Select Assets
    screen, type a mandatory job name and an optional job description.
  5. From the asset hierarchy, select the assets that you want to evaluate in a CER job. You can select an asset, an asset group, or an asset folder.
  6. Click
    Add
    or
    Add All
    depending on your selection, and then click
    Next
    .
  7. On the
    Schedule Job
    screen, you can choose to run the job immediately after you create it, or schedule the run at specific date and time, or specify the frequency and schedule this as a recurring job.
    You can also limit the job run duration. This is the duration up to which a CER job can run for every asset in that job.
  8. On the
    Schedule Job
    screen, you can also configure the following
    More Options
    :
    • For incomplete execution, rerun every
      Set the frequency to rerun the job if it is not completed.
    • Collect data if it is older than
      Choose to collect data again only if the available data is older than the specified number of days.
    • Limit Collection Duration
      Specify the duration up to which data collection can happen on an asset.
    • Per asset time out for agent based data collection
      Specify the duration after which you want data collection of non responsive agent based assets to time out
      You can still end the job while the job is running and the time out duration is set. While specifying the time out duration, consider the scope of the job and the network bandwidth.
  9. Click
    Next
    .
  10. On the
    Select Report Templates
    screen, choose whether you want to synchronize the evaluation results of the CER job with the reporting database. The setting is enabled by default. If you turn it off, the evaluation results are not available in reports and dashboards.
  11. If you want to generate a report or multiple reports for the evaluation results of this CER job, select one or more report templates, define the template scope, and add the template.
    At this step, you can click
    Finish
    or you can click
    Next
    to configure the
    Advanced Settings
    . These are optional settings.