Control Indicator not executing, and how to specific supporting data

GordonCook
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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":

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To execute the indicator manually, to test you can scroll down on your indicator template, open any indicator from the "Indicators" tab:

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Click on "Execute"

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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.