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
.Name of job | Function |
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Asset import |
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Asset discovery |
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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:
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 |