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Create Keyed Values for Critical_Assets

This topic provides an example of adding custom values to a keyed list that has none provided by default. You can follow this example to add values to other existing keyed lists.

You can use certain reports and queries to monitor activities by your business critical hosts. To do this, you must first identify these hosts as values in the key-value list for Critical_Assets.

Reports that use the Critical_Assets list include the following:

• Account Creations by Business Critical Hosts
• Failed Login on Business Critical Hosts
• Resource Access Sessions by Business Critical Hosts
• Resource Access by Business Critical Hosts
• System Access by Business Critical Hosts

Similar reports for CA Access Control, CA Identity Manager, and CA SiteMinder use the Critical_Assets keyed list, for example: CA Access Control - Account Creations by Business Critical Hosts.

Queries that use the Critical_Assets list include the following:

• (>5) Logins by Admin Accounts on Critical Systems during Night for Last 1 Day
• (>5) Logins by Admin Accounts on Critical Systems during Weekends for Last 1 Week
• System Exception Activity...

If you create a custom query on critical assets, define the filter as follows:

To define a filter for other keyed lists, replace the value with the list value you want. For example, you could set the filter value to EPHI_Database to filter for hostnames belonging to that keyed list.

To create keyed values for Critical_Assets

1. Click the Administration tab, the Library subtab, and the Keyed List folder.
2. Expand the Keyed List folder, and select Critical_Assets.
3. Take one of the following actions to create this list:
   • Click Add Value and enter each new value to include in the keyed list.
   • Create an Excel spreadsheet with one row, where each column is a single value. Save it as a csv file. Click Import Values to import your edited list.
   • If the values for this key are dynamically generated by the CA IT PAM dynamic values process, click Import Dynamic Values List.
4. Click Save.

   Reports using this keyed list that are generated by scheduled jobs begin reflecting data for the updated values.