Compliance Dashboard

Users can view the current and trending state of their virtual infrastructure’s hosts compliance in regards to their currently enforced templates. A template is enforced if it is associated with a hosts’ last compliance event (either assessment or remediation). For more information on the compliance of hosts and administrator use cases, see Compliance.

Current State

The current state of compliance is represented by the number of hosts that are in compliance with an enforced template, noncompliant with an enforced template, or haven't had any form of compliance assessment yet. You can also filter by Host Type or Label to further limit what hosts are displayed.

The summary display shows a donut chart that represents all the hosts divided into 3 possible sectors.

Compliant: hosts that are 100% compliant with the template enforced
Noncompliant: hosts that are less than 100% compliant with the template enforced
Unassessed: hosts that have had no form of assessment or remediation performed on them

Each sector size is defined by the percent of hosts that are Compliant, Noncompliant or Unassessed out of the total number of hosts.

Clicking on a sector will open the details panel that displays the hosts that contributed to the selected sector.

For example, clicking on the Compliant sector displays compliant hosts information in the Details panel as shown below.

Similar to the Admin Access donut chart, a warning sign can appear on the Compliance donut chart, when the overall hosts compliance is below the configured compliance goal.

Details

The Compliance > Details panel displays data about the current state of all the hosts, depending on the last template run on each.

Hostname
Host Type
Version
Label
Last Run Template
Last Run (as a timestamp)
Compliance (as a percentage — %)
Status

Data can be filtered by the above fields, excluding Last Run and Compliance Percentage. Also, data can be sorted by Hostname, Host Type, and Version.

Click the Last Run link to view a list of all operations and their result. Click the icon in the History column to view the Compliance History page. For more information, see Compliance History.

This component is a stacked area graph where the y-axis is a percentage (0-100) and the x-axis is time. The line represents the change in percentage of compliant, noncompliant, and unassessed hosts out of the total number of hosts from the time CloudControl was deployed. The user can define the scheduled event frequency, which ranges from every 15 minutes to once a day, using the Compliance > Scheduled Events tab. The event is titled “Trending Compliance.”

As reflected in the Compliance Dashboard figure above, the donut represents the current compliance state of hosts, where current is time-relevant because the data for the chart is pulled from the last scheduled compliance event.

If an assessed host becomes unreachable or is made unprotected through the CloudControl console, its compliance state displays the results from the last compliance event run, which could be assessment or remediation.

In the Compliance title bar, the Compliance Goal Configuration control allows the user to determine their desired compliance goal. If, at a given unit of time, the overall hosts compliance is below the compliance goal, the navigator color will be yellow; otherwise it will be green.