Approving Remediation
If your policy was defined with the Remediation option checked, the policy will build a job for each computer to perform remediation to A Security Analysis Remediation policy requires approval for each computer before running the task to fix non-conforming settings. Before this job is delivered to the computers, it must be approved.
Steps:
- Click on the Remediation Approvals (smaller) tab at the top of the policy view.
- You may view the job that has been created by clicking the View link to the left of each computer in the list.
- Check the Approve box next to each computer that is approved to perform the remediation steps. To approve all computers in the list, check the Approve box in the header of the column.
- Click Save at the bottom of the page.
- Once saved, the computers are immediately sent the remediation job and will perform another analysis afterwards.
The selected approval process, configured in the policy's selected approval type, determines how you approve remediation.
To create a Security Analysis Remediation policy, do the following steps:
- In the Security Management Console, click Policies.
- In the file library in the left panel, navigate to Policies > Arellia Solutions > Security Analysis > Policies.
- Right-click Policies and click New > Security Analysis Remediation Policy.
- Click Save.
Remediation Approval
For the Manual Approval Process, use the Remediation Approvals section in the policy to view, approve, or deny requests, and view associated tasks. You must approve remediation for processes controlled by external systems (such as Microsoft SharePoint or LANDESK Service Desk) via the associated application.
To view, approve, or deny requests, and view associated tasks, do the following steps:
- In the Policy tabs at the top of the right pane, click Remediation Approvals.
- Select the check-box for the request you want to access.
- Click the View Detail button to see the commands that will be run to remediate the computer.
- Select a command and click Edit to view additional details.
- After you have reviewed a request then select it and click Approve to allow the remediation to run or Deny to reject it.