Control Indicator not executing, and how to specific supporting data
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07-15-2024 05:57 AM
I am trying to set up my first control indicator to understand the behavior, and running into a few problems.
The first problem is that the Indicator won't execute or produce results. The second problem is that I don't understand how to correctly specify the data, although I may be able to fix this with trial and error if I can get the Indicator to produce results.
So I have created an indicator template, tied to a control objective, and to entities. In this case I want to make sure AV (Cortex) is installed on all user machines. The indicator template created 1,435 Indicators, and I have defined a basic test, count, with a target of 1. The supporting data has specific 'Software Installations' as the Source table and 'Display name' as the supporting data fields, although I'm not sure this is correct. What I intend to do is read from the Software Installations table for each user computer and make sure Cortex is installed. I don't understand why this supporting data template has a Sample size field, or what I should put there.
The template is scheduled to run Daily, and the Indicators each show a last run data in the past. I can't get them to run by pressing the 'Execute' button or anything else, and I'm not sure what scheduled job runs them.
Any advice on either question welcome - thanks.
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07-16-2024 09:07 PM
Hi @GordonCook ,
Let me start with when the indicator runs , it's actually based on a scheduled job called "GRC indicator nightly run":
To execute the indicator manually, to test you can scroll down on your indicator template, open any indicator from the "Indicators" tab:
Click on "Execute"
Now, let's understand "Supporting data", well we have a Scheduled job called "Indicator supporting data collection job", which runs to get the data.
If you click on "Collect supporting data", The following three fields are displayed:
Table | The supporting data table. |
Supporting Data Fields | The fields from the supporting data table to be considered. |
Criteria | Filter conditions. |
Use reference field | Indicates that you want to use a reference field. The following two fields are displayed. |
Reference field | The reference field that you want to use for sampling. |
Sample size | The number of records you want to use for data sampling. |