About job types

While
Control Compliance Suite
enables you to create and manage your jobs, some jobs are automatically created when you install
Control Compliance Suite
. Such automatically created jobs are called System jobs. They perform certain predefined functions. Some System jobs may be hidden.
Types of jobs in
Control Compliance Suite
lists various types of jobs in
Control Compliance Suite
.
Types of jobs in
Control Compliance Suite
Name of job
Function
Asset import
  • Importing assets from various platforms to CCS asset system
  • Adding assets to the asset hierarchy for more effective asset management
  • Updating already imported assets, if required
Asset discovery
  • Discovering all assets in the selected network
  • Adding the discovered assets to CCS asset system
Network discovery
Discovering subnets that are connected to the specified network
Report generation
Generating various types of reports using data from the reporting database
Tiered dashboard update
Updating an existing Tiered dashboard by using the
Edit Tiered Dashboards
wizard.
Report data synchronization
Synchronizing data from the production database to the reporting database
Report data purge
Erasing and removing unwanted historical and summary data from the reporting database.
Global metrics and trend computation
Computing metrics for standard-, policy-, and mandate-specific rollups that dashboards use on the Web console.
Production data purge
Erasing and removing unwanted data from the production database.
Queries
Collecting data about objects in your network.
You can run a predefined or custom query to get data for the parameters that you configure.
Queries baseline
Comparing results of two selected query runs, where the older run acts as a baseline for comparison.
Evaluation
Evaluating a standard or a set of standards against assets or asset group, or an asset folder.
Perform data collection before you run an Evaluation Job.
Data collection
Collecting required data for a standard or a set of standards.
The job collects the data against assets or asset group, or an asset folder.
Collection-​Evaluation-​Reporting
Creating a chained job that collects data for a set of assets, evaluates the assets, and generates reports for those assets.
You can also schedule to remediate assets automatically at the end of the evaluation.
Remediation verification
Recollecting and re-evaluating asset data after the remediation action is taken on the assets
SCAP evaluation
Evaluating asAbout SCAP Evaluation jobsets against the SCAP Benchmarks
SCAP OVAL evaluation
Evaluating assets against valid OVAL Definition files
Download Live Updates
Downloading the available CCS updates to the CCS staging area
Automatic updates installation
Automatically installing CCS updates on CCS components after the updates are downloaded to the CCS staging area
This job installs the CCS updates on the CCS components in the following order:
  • CCS Directory Server
  • CCS Application Server
  • CCS Data Processing Service
Make sure that no other jobs are in execution when you schedule the Automatic updates installation job. If any job is in the executing state after the Automatic updates installation job starts, the executing job is aborted. After the Automatic updates installation job starts, you cannot cancel it.
External data integration
Collecting data from third-party systems that are integrated with
Control Compliance Suite
Import assets and agents
Importing agents that are registered with CCS Manager and assets associated with these agents
Agent Content Update
Deploying the selected content on the computer on which CCS agent is installed
Agent Product Update
Updating CCS agents with the latest infrastructure updates and fixes related to agent infrastructure