Steps to Create a New Job for Governance Audit

The Run Governance Audit target type allows users to schedule automated governance and compliance audits across cloud environments. When configured, the system periodically evaluates selected regions and accounts against defined governance policies and compliance standards, ensuring continuous visibility, risk identification, and adherence to organizational controls without manual intervention.

Steps to Configure:

1. Enter Job Name:

Enter a unique Job Name to identify the scheduled task.

2. Select Trigger Type:

Choose CRON to define a time-based execution schedule, or select Rule to use a predefined rule created under CSPM > Alert Rules.

3.  Configure Schedule or Rule

If CRON is selected, specify the Cron Schedule using the supported cron format to define when the job should run. If Rule is selected, specify the Rule ID to associate the scheduler job with the selected alert rule.

4. Select Target , Region, Account , Compliance/Custom tag:

Select Run Governance Audit as the target to enable automated governance and compliance analysis. Specify the regions and accounts to be audited, and apply filters such as Compliance Tags or Custom Tags as needed.

5. Choose Execution Mode

Select the execution type based on your environment:

• Agentic Execution
• Select an agent from the dropdown list (agent status is displayed as online or offline).
• Use the provided Linux wget link to download and install the agent in your VMware environment.
• Once installed and online, the agent executes the scheduled jobs and sends results back to the CloudSPX platform.
• Non-Agentic Execution
• No agent installation is required.
• Jobs are executed directly through the CloudSPX platform.

6.  Add Job

After completing all configurations, click Add Job to schedule and activate the task.