[Open-scap] Waiver support in HTML report

[Martin Preisler]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Josh Kayse" <Joshua.Kayse at gtri.gatech.edu>
> To: "Martin Preisler" <mpreisle at redhat.com>
> Cc: "open-scap-list" <open-scap-list at redhat.com>, scap-workbench at lists.fedorahosted.org, "SCAP Security Guide"
> <scap-security-guide at lists.fedorahosted.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 6, 2014 6:58:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [Open-scap] Waiver support in HTML report
> 
> 
> > On Nov 6, 2014, at 10:49 AM, Martin Preisler <mpreisle at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > I wrote a short blog post about waivers in HTML report.
> > These changes are coming in 1.2.0 so we would like to gather
> > some feedback before the release.
> > 
> > Suggestions welcome!
> > 
> > http://martin.preisler.me/2014/11/waivers-in-openscap-html-report/
> 
> This is awesome. I’ll echo Shawn Wells question about generating waivers.

Replied about this to Shawn.

> Additionally, does a waived rule still impact the score of the system?

It does not. For all intents and purposes it behaves like a rule of the result
the waiver set it to. So if you waive a failed rule and make it "pass" you
basically make it behave exactly like a passed rule.

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Martin Preisler