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How the Baseline Process Works

If there is already a baseline function established, issuing BASELINE after an online CA Auditor function causes a baseline compare. If there are changes, the following message is issued and an ALERT is generated in the 8.1 Baseline - Alert Review panel:

CA Auditor has detected audit worthy changes for the following function: 2.4.3 KEY LPA LIBS userid

If there is no baseline function established (no entry in the 8.2 Baseline - Baseline Content panel), the baseline snapshot is created and appears in the 8.2 panel.

To set up a baseline to detect to detect changes to results returned by function 2.4.1, complete the following actions:

• Start CA Auditor and run function 2.4.1, the APF List Library Display
• Verify that every defined APF authorized library is valid
• Issue the ‘BASELINE’ keyword at the command prompt to save the output
• Configure CA Auditor to automatically run a comparison against the baseline for function 2.4.1 at specific intervals

If any discrepancies between the live analysis and the baselined analysis occurs, CA Auditor will generate:

• A report of the discrepancies
• An alert record to the user defined in the CA Auditor baseline parameter file configuration

Alerts displayed in the 8.1 Baseline - Alert Review panel, are displayed by users who manually issue the BASELINE command after executing the function. For baseline analysis that run automatically from the policy file member POLTJS, the 8.1 display entries are associated with the user that setup the baseline analysis jobs in 0.6.2 CA Auditor Baseline - Procedure Create.