About platforms

In
Control Compliance Suite
, a platform is defined as the category to which a group of entities belong. For example, SQL can be a platform, which contains entities that define the SQL application.
The
Control Compliance Suite
supports certain predefined platforms that are recognized by the infrastructure for data collection. For every predefined platform, a default data collector of
Control Compliance Suite
performs the data collection. An entity schema contains the blueprint of a data collector and drives the data collector for data collection.
The predefined platforms of
Control Compliance Suite
are as follows:
  • Windows
  • UNIX
  • SQL
  • Oracle
  • Exchange
  • NDS
  • NetWare
  • ESM
  • Cisco
  • VMware
You can define a platform for any custom application for which you want to collect data through a CSV file or through an ODBC database table.