ANMS_FUN_BLD_001 (Time-Based Rule) - Control creation

[goldekt1]

Controls may be created with the Agents Manage option, but the control is sent once transcoded, and there are occasions when a control needs to be created but not immediately sent. This is possible with the Build option, but not the Agents Manage option. If the control is selected from the Transcoder log, it might need to be transcoded by the Agent, and when completed, is then sent. If a series of controls are to be exercised in a specific sequence (and a macro is not wanted), this workflow is repeated for each control, and if the control is ‘new’ to the Manage option, it is re-transcoded, and this interferes with the timing of the planned sequence. Even when the control is created with the Agent option, the URI string is displayed in the Transcoder log Input String column, not the CBOR string. To get to the point of having the control CBOR in the Input String column of the Transcoder, the control has been transcoded twice and executed once, possibly generating unwanted reports. An option to create a control with the Agent option, but not send it is needed. This would allow the control (URI string) to be placed in the Transcoder log for later use. The 'create but not send ' option should also generate the CBOR string and add a row in the Transcoder log so the control would not be re-transcoded by the Agent option.

Re-execution of controls from the Agents option is cumbersome:
⦁ The Build option is selected
⦁ The control is selected from the CBOR column
⦁ The Agents page is displayed for selection of agent to manage
⦁ The Test Input option is selected
⦁ If the CBOR string selected is not in the Transcoder Input String, the CBOR will be re-transcoded by the Manage option
⦁ The control is submitted
⦁ The option to send is selected

The user does have the option to copy the CBOR strings from the Transcoder log and paste them into the Agents page.