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Recognition Objectives

Recognition Objectives are designed to ensure that the following can be achieved with the least amount of effort:

  • No machine has a large percentage of unrecognized files on it.
  • Files that occur often in the population are recognized.
  • Files that occur only on a few machines may not be recognized.

Based on this principle, Recognition Objectives help you set achievable goals for the recognition process, measure how far you are from those goals, and provide assistance in achieving them.

The objectives engine allows you to define as many objectives as you need. By default, only a single objective for the entire Enterprise is defined, although this can be extended by setting up objectives that apply to subsets of the population as well.

To set Recognition Objectives options

Click the Objectives Options item in the Recognition menu.

A dialog box is displayed with the Startup tab page showing.

The Startup Tab

You can specify the following:

  • File containing default Objectives

    To load a default set of objectives when Analysis Workbench starts, type in the name of the file containing the objectives here.

    By default, Analysis Workbench uses the file objectives.xml.

  • Startup Options

    To automatically show the Objective Summary dialog box when new scan data has been loaded, check the option to do so.

    You can set up when automatic recalculation of objective compliance should take place. When many scan files are loaded, this may take significant time to do and you may wish to disable some of the automatic calculation options on this page. Objectives can be manually recalculated from the Recognition Objectives dialog box.

The Logging Tab

You can specify which log files to use to log teaching activity, if any.

The two log files that can be created are both CSV (Comma-separated variable) files that can be imported into other tools for further analysis.

The Ignored Files Tab

This page can contain a list of file names that are to be ignored when calculating objective compliance.

This may be useful if a set of files are known to be of no interest.

Type the file names into the list pane and they will not count when the Applied objectives are evaluated.

Adding Tagged Files

You can also add files that have been tagged in a Files window in the Analysis Workbench workspace.

Note You will have to close this dialog box first if you forgot to tag the files.

  1. In a Files window, tag the files you want to add to the Ignored Files list.
  2. Click the Add tagged files button. The files are added to the list.
  3. To clear the contents of the list, click the Clear button.

The Excluded Directories Tab

This page can contain a list of directories that are to be ignored when calculating objective compliance.

Directories with names in this list are ignored when using the SAI Teaching Wizard. The list will include directories that commonly contain files from multiple applications.

The SAI Teaching Wizard can only help teach applications installed in their own directories.

Example of directories you may want to include in this list are:

  • C:\tmp
  • C:\Windows
  • C:\WINNT\system32
  • /usr/bin

Type the directory name and path into the list pane and files that occur only in the listed directories will not be chosen for teaching in the SAI Teaching Wizard. Files in these directories are not excluded when evaluating objectives.

Adding Tagged Directories

You can also add directories that have been tagged in a Directories window in the Analysis Workbench workspace.

Note You will have to close this dialog box first if you forgot to tag the directories.

  1. In a Directories window, tag the directories you want to add to the Ignored Excluded Directories list.
  2. Click the Add tagged dirs button. The directories are added to the list.
  3. To clear the contents of the list, click the Clear button.

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