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.