CA Chorus for Security and Compliance Management offers a customizable workspace. You customize your workspace to better suit your role and site, adding dashboards for various tasks, and selecting modules to access different functionality.
The following list details key product touch-points with real-world examples that demonstrate why you would use each component for your discipline. CA Chorus offers an intuitive user interface; however, if you are unsure how to proceed see the Product Guide. Additionally, you can click the question mark icon from within a module for procedures and concept help topics.
A dashboard is a customizable area that contains modules necessary for your tasks and projects. You can create multiple dashboards, and add and remove a dashboard as needed.
For this sample, create three dashboards named Search, Alerts, and Security Tools.
The Metrics panel provides a visual display of key system metrics.
Add the following security metrics to the Metrics panel. These metrics provide an overview of your systems’ stability and usage levels.
Monitor the number of signons on each of your systems.
Monitor the number of Command Propagation Facility commands.
Monitor the number of access validation requests.
You also add the RACROUTE signons metric to your Alerts dashboard. Use the TextBox module to label this metric with information about the system.
You want easy access to CA Technologies product news and documentation. To do so, add http://support.ca.com as a Web Application module to your Security Tools dashboard. This integrates this site with your dashboard.
Add an Alerts module to your Alerts dashboard. Follow the wizard to configure this module to use your site’s alerts policy, and to label the module.
As a security administrator, you want quick access to key tools. Add the Quick Links module to your Security Tools dashboard. The Quick Links module includes an Access Attempt Simulator, as well as the Security Administration interface. These tools are used to access and administer your external security manager (ESM).
Add the Command Manager module to your Security Tools dashboard so you have quick access to a command interface. Select a system and issue a command to display the status of your ESM. For CA Top Secret, issue TSS MODIFY STATUS. For CA ACF2, issue SHOW ACF2.
The Investigator lets you access security definitions, performance statistics, and otherwise monitor your systems. Add the Investigator to your Search dashboard.
Your focus is user administration, so you customize your view for quick access to certain user information. Under Security, select Definitions, then select Users. Select a user from the list. When you do, a tabbed Details pane opens at the bottom of the field. Click the plus symbol to add a new tab, and rename the new tab to User Administration (to rename a tab, double-click its title).
You add six fields to this tab. To add a field, right-click in the new tab and select Insert Field. Add these three fields from the Basic Information section: Name, Suspended, and Last Used Date. Add these three fields from the TSO Information section: Account Number, Region Size, and Default Proc.
You have customized this data so you can quickly find key fields in one tab, more efficiently investigating and resolving requests and issues.
Configure the Knowledge Center to search only the data sources related to your discipline. Doing so improves the relevance of your search results.
Open the Knowledge Center and click Advanced Search. Under Show Results From, select MVS/Quick Ref, User Documentation, CA Chorus, and either CA ACF2 or CA Top Secret, as appropriate.
Now that you customized your dashboards, share them with your peers to help them start working quickly. Right-click the dashboard and follow the prompts.
Summary
This sample shows you one of the many ways you can customize your CA Chorus for Security and Compliance Management workspace. This customization can improve productivity and response time for customer issues. Use this sample as a starting point to explore how you can customize the workspace for your user- and site-specific needs.
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