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Benefits of the Compliance Reports

The information in the security repository is a replication of the information from the security database, which is generally accessible using CA Top Secret commands. However, the information in the security repository has been designed and resolved specifically to service compliance reporting. Using compliance reports generated from the security repository provides the following benefits:

• The compliance reports present all of the compliance information required for compliance assessment in an organized and easy to understand format. To otherwise obtain the same information, many different CA Top Secret commands must be issued, and the information correlated manually.
• Because the information in the security repository has been designed and resolved specifically to service the compliance reports, the compliance reports generally run much more quickly than the CA Top Secret commands required to provide the same compliance information.
• In a multiple system environment, the compliance reports can be run for more than one system image at a time. To obtain the same information, CA Top Secret commands must be issued in each system image and the information correlated manually.