Health Check Reports

The detailed analysis of the security score for a given server. The analysis is done by running multiple health check tests (full list in appendix). Each test is either successful or a fail. The final score is the weighted average of the successful tests.

You can change the tests that run on each health check report by going to the health check report settings. In addition, you may exclude unimportant tests from the user interface directly from the result grid.

Health check reports are run either manually or automatically every week for every server.

Note: Any excluded health check test will continue to be excluded in future reports

Health Check Report Settings

The health check settings are similar to the alert settings in the way that predefined templates are used to activate specific health check tests.

From the health check report settings, you may disable certain tests that you don’t want to run.

It’s important to note that once a single test has been excluded from the report page, it will be excluded automatically from all future health check reports that run on the same server.

There are two types of health check report tests – for OS and SQL servers. Thus, there are two types of health check report templates as well. You may create as many templates as you wish. However, only a single template of each type may be attached to a server.

Any new affiliation to a machine or a server will remove the affiliation from the previous template and attach it to the new template.

After affiliating your machine/server to a template, you may customize specific servers/machines by choosing the “custom setup.”

How do I find the health check report settings?

Creating a new health check report template

There are two ways to create a new health check report template:

1. To create a new blank template, press the “[+]Create Template” button. A create new template dialog will Choose the new template name and its type.
   
2. The second method (recommended) will be to start with an existing template. Pressing the (…) on the top right corner duplicates the template. A dialog will appear where you will need to enter the duplicated template’s name.
   

Affiliating a server with a template

To affiliate a server or machine with an existing template, click on the template name and go to the “Affiliated machine” tab (if the template is a SQL type, it will say “Affiliated server”). Then press the “Add server” button and choose your machine/server.

To remove the machine or server, just click on the X next to its name or deselect it from the list of affiliated machines/servers.

Customizing a server to exclude/include tests

By default, your server will be attached to a template. If you wish to customize a specific server not to include specific health check tests, you first choose the “Custom Setup.” Remember that this option will unlink the specific test from the template. You can always undo this.

From the custom setup:

1. Find your server from the tree list and click
   
2. Find the relevant If it’s a machine-level test, it will be found in the Host tab. If it’s a SQL-level test, it will be found in the SQL tab.
   

Customizing a server to exclude/include tests

By default, your server will be attached to a template. If you wish to customize a specific server not to include specific health check tests, you first choose the “Custom Setup.” Remember that this option will unlink the specific test from the template. You can always undo this.

From the custom setup:

1. Find your server from the tree list and click it.
   
2. Find the relevant If it’s a machine-level test, it will be found in the Host tab. If it’s a SQL-level test, it will be found in the SQL tab.
   
3. Disable/Enable the selection. This will cause the test to be unlinked from the template, which you can then undo by pressing the “reset” button next to it.