Creating custom compliance check categories

The Compliance Check Editor allows you to create your own custom categories that contain compliance checks installed on your core. For example, you can create a custom category that contains all checks that audit user and group settings on your Windows servers. Or, you might only be interesting in accessing specific Linux services-related checks and can create a category that contains them.

To create custom compliance check categories:

1. In the SA Client, from the Tools menu, select Compliance Check Editor. If you do not see the menu item, contact your SA administrator to obtain access permissions.
2. In the Compliance Check Editor window, in the Browse tab, expand the different Custom Checks categories to find the check you want to edit. Narrow the list by selecting an operating system in the Platform filter drop-down list.
3. Select a compliance check.
4. In the upper right side of the Compliance Check Editor window, Properties tab, Categories row, click the “Click to edit” link.
5. In the Categories window, place your mouse point at the end of the main check category name and then press ENTER on your keyboard.
6. Type a name to create a new compliance check category. This creates a new compliance check category in the Compliance Check Editor. To add more categories, press ENTER again to start a new line and then type the name of the category. The selected check will be added to each new category.
7. Click Apply.
8. To create the custom grouping folder, click Apply Changes at the bottom of the Compliance Check Editor window.
9. To delete the custom category, repeat the process and delete the name of the category in the Categories window.