Creating a custom check using relevance

This task helps you in creating a custom check using relevance.

Before you begin

Ensure that you have Owner or Write permission for the checklist to add new checks.

Procedure

Perform the following steps to create a custom check by using relevance method:
Note: At any point, if you decide to create custom check using Unix content, you can switch using the radio button available in the Compliance check creation wizard. The fields and field values in Required information and Description compliance creation wizard remains unchanged but, the values in the Behavior section will be deleted. For more information, see Creating a custom check using Unix content.
  1. Navigate to the SCM App landing page and click Create > Create custom content.
    Compliance check creation wizard appears.
    Note: Create using relevance is the default method in the Compliance check creation wizard.


  2. In the Required information section, provide the following information:
    • Title
    • Site
    • Source
    • Source ID
    • Source Release date
    • Category
    • Severity
    Note:
    • Based on the Site selection, the Compliance check creation wizard will auto-generate the required information for Applicability Fixlet and you can select the Applicability Fixlet from the drop-down if the site has more than one Fixlet.
    • SourceID must be unique in the checklist.
    • SourceID field must start with alphanumeric characters and may contain hyphen and underscore.
    • If you want to add a new category which does not exist in the custom site, you can add it by clicking Add new Category.
  3. In the Description section, enter the Description of the custom check.


    Note:
    • Description field is must be filled in order to create a custom check.
    • You can customize the description field texts using text format option.
  4. In the Behavior section, select Relevance.


  5. Click Check syntax to validate the entered relevance.
    Note:
    • If the entered syntax is incorrect, an error appears.
    • Use Add new relevance option to add multiple relevance to your custom check, Delete this relevance option to delete the added relevance and Clear to delete the client relevance.
  6. Add Analysis to the custom check.
    Note: You can add only one Analysis when creating custom check.
    • Including Analysis to the custom check:

      1. Check Include desired value.
      2. Enter the Title, Desired value, and Description of the analysis.
  7. If required, you can add Remediation to the custom check.
    Note: You can add only one Remediation when creating custom check.
    • Including Remediation to the custom check:

      1. Check Include Remediation.
      2. Enter the Remediation script.
  8. Click Create.
  9. In the Create Custom Check dialog box, click Yes, create.
    When the custom check is created, Compliance check creation wizard navigates to the custom check details page. The details page contains Overview, Applicable Devices and Deployment sections.