This section provides an overview of applicability groups in the Process Pack for IT GRC and includes procedures that you can use to work with applicability groups.

Tip
The applicability groups feature in the Process Pack for IT GRC requires the operating system version information for all configuration items in the System Center Service Manager CMDB. For more information, see the section “Create a System Center Configuration Manager Connector to Populate and Synchronize the Service Manager CMDB” in the Process Pack for IT GRC Evaluation and Deployment Guide.

In This Section

About Process Pack for IT GRC Applicability Groups

  • Provides an overview of applicability groups in the Process Pack for IT GRC.

How to Assign Process Pack for IT GRC Applicability Groups to Control Activities

  • Describes how to assign Process Pack for IT GRC applicability groups to control activities.

About Process Pack for IT GRC Applicability Groups

Process Pack for IT GRC applicability groups contain a list of managed computers in your environment. Each control activity can be assigned one or more applicability groups, which allows you to configure control activities to apply to specific managed computers in your environment.

First, create the Process Pack for IT GRC applicability groups based on your organization. Then, assign one or more applicability groups to the control activities in your IT GRC program.

How to Assign Process Pack for IT GRC Applicability Groups to Control Activities

You can assign one or more Process Pack for IT GRC applicability groups to a control activity in the Service Manager Console.

To assign a Process Pack for IT GRC applicability group to a control activity

  1. Click Start, click All Programs, click Microsoft System Center, click Service Manager 2010, and then click Service Manager Console.

    The System Center Service Manager Console starts.

  2. In the Service Manager Console, in the Navigation pane, click Compliance and Risk Items.

  3. In the Compliance and Risk Items pane, go to the All Compliance and Risk Items/Control Management/Control Activities/All Automated Control Activities location.

  4. In the Results pane, click <control_activity> (where control_activity is the name of the control activity that you want to edit).

  5. In the Tasks pane, click Edit.

    The Control Activity property form displays.

  6. On the Control Activity form, on the General tab, under Applicable Groups, click Add.

    The Select Objects dialog box appears.

  7. Complete the Select Objects dialog box by performing the following steps:

    1. In Available objects, click <applicability_group> (where applicability_group is the name of the applicability group you wish to add to the control activity), and then click Add.

      The applicability group appears in the Selected objects list box.

      Tip
      You can use the Search by name box to help search for a specific applicability group.
    2. Continue to perform step 7a until all the appropriate applicability groups are selected.

    3. Click OK.

      The selected applicability groups appear in the Applicability Groups list box.

      Tip
      You can remove unnecessary applicability groups by clicking the applicability group and then clicking Remove.
  8. In the Control Activity form, click OK.