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Audit Work Items

Audit Work Items enable Information Systems Security Managers (ISSMs) to complete end-to-end auditing directly within the Management Console.

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How to enable Audit Work Items

  • From the Explorer View, find the target Report or Template, then, right click and select either Report Properties or Template Properties depending on the type of object you are configuring.
  • From the General Tab, use the Generate audit work item checkbox to automatically create an audit work item each time the object executes.
  • Use the Assign to drop-down to select a user to initially assign the audit work item.
    Information The Assign to drop-down is populated using the default Active Directory conneciton. If the host is not on a domain, you can type any value in this field.
  • Use the Audit review due in textbox to specify the number of days until the audit review is required to be completed.
Enabling Audit Work Items
Enabling Audit Work Items

How to manage Audit Work Items

  • From the Explorer View, expand the root Auditing node, then, select Audit Work Items. The Audit Work Items Viewer displays.
  • Use the Audit Work Items Viewer to add, manage and complete Audit Work Items.
Audit Work Items Viewer
Audit Work Items Viewer

How to manually add an Audit Work Item

  • From the Audit Work Items Viewer Toolbar, click the Add Add Button button. A new line item is appended to the viewer.

How to delete Audit Work Items

  • From the Audit Work Items Viewer, select the Audit Work Items to delete then press the Delete key.

How to batch update multiple Audit Work Items

  • From the Audit Work Items Viewer, check the Audit Work Items to update, then, click the Multi-Edit column header. The Multi-Edit Popup View displays.
  • From the Multi-Edit Popup View, set the State, Assigned To, Due Date and Comment to add.
Multi-Editing Audit Work Items
Multi-Editing Audit Work Items

How to add comments to an Audit Work Item

  • From the Audit Work Items Viewer, select the target Audit Work Item then click the Down Down Button button. The Comments View displays.
  • From the Comments View, click the Add Add Button button. A new line item is appended to the list of comments.
  • Use the Comments textbox to type your comments.
  • To save your comments, either press the Tab key or move focus to another control.
Adding comments to an Audit Work Item
Adding comments to an Audit Work Item

How to filter Audit Work Items

  • From the Audit Work Items Viewer, click one of the Column Filter Buttons Column Filter Button. The Column Filter Popup View displays.
  • From the Column Filter Popup View, check the options to include and uncheck the options to exclude, then, click Apply.
Filtering Audit Work Items
Filtering Audit Work Items

How to view Audit Work Item details

  • From the Audit Work Items Viewer, select the target Audit Work Item then click the More More Button button. The Audit Work Item Properties View displays.
Audit Work Item Properties View
Audit Work Item Properties View

How to modify the displayed columns

  • From the Audit Work Items Viewer Toolbar, click the Edit Edit Button button. The Audit Work Items Properties View displays.
  • From the Audit Work Items Properties View, check the columns to include, use the Name to rename columns and use the Up Up Button button and Down Down Button button to change the column order.

Related Topics

Auditing

Reports

Self-Auditing

Templates