Reports & Audits

The Reports module is the historical record of your compliance efforts. A report is a point-in-time snapshot of results — immutable evidence that can be used for internal audits, SOC 2 verification, or regulatory compliance.

OpenSCM supports two types of saved reports:

Type	Scope	Source
Policy Report	All systems evaluated against one policy	Live policy report
System Report	All policies applied to one system	Live system report

Why Reports Matter

Unlike the live views which show the current state, a saved report captures the exact status of every test at the moment it was generated. This allows you to:

Maintain Evidence — prove your infrastructure met security standards on a specific date
Track Progress — compare snapshots over time to measure security posture improvement
Audit Readiness — provide auditors with formal documentation without giving them access to your production environment

Policy Reports

A policy report captures the compliance status of every system evaluated against a single policy at a point in time.

Creating a Policy Report

graph TD
    A[Run Policy] -->|Agent returns results| B[Live Policy Report]
    B -->|Click Save Report| C{Policy Reports Archive}
    C --> D[View in Browser]
    C --> E[Download PDF]
    C --> F[Delete Record]

Open a policy and view the Live Report
Click Save Report to archive the current results
The snapshot is stored with a timestamp and the name of the user who saved it

Compliance Trend (added in 0.7.2)

The live policy and system report pages include a Compliance Trend chart — the entity's own hourly compliance history, so when a score moves you can see since when. Snapshots are recorded every hour for each scanned system and policy, and both score calculations are stored per snapshot — so switching the Per-test / Per-system / Per-policy toggle in Settings → Compliance re-renders the whole line in the chosen mode rather than showing a step. Hover a point for its pass/fail tallies. The chart appears once two snapshots exist (~2 hours after upgrading) and its history length is governed by System/Policy Trend Retention (default 90 days, 0 = forever).

Policy Report Contents

Each saved policy report captures:

Field	Description
Policy Name & Version	The exact policy that was evaluated
Date & Time	When the report was saved
Saved By	The user who saved the report
Per-System Results	PASS / FAIL / NA / EXCLUDED for every test on every system
Compliance Verdict	COMPLIANT, NON-COMPLIANT, or NOT APPLICABLE per system
Test Metadata	Name and description of every test included
Result Counts	Per-system Passed / Failed / NA / Excluded tallies in the card header
Aggregate Totals	Policy-wide Pass / Fail / NA / Excl counts plus a percent-compliant badge in the top card

Why a Test Failed

Added in 0.6.4

Stop guessing which part of a multi-condition test went wrong.

On a live policy or system report, any FAILED or NA row shows a small "why?" link next to its status badge. Click it to expand a per-condition breakdown:

Check	Expected	Result	Note
`FILE /etc/ssh/sshd_config`	`contains 'PermitRootLogin no'`	FAIL	expected to contains 'PermitRootLogin no' — not satisfied
`FILE /etc/ssh/sshd_config`	`exists`	PASS	matched

Each condition shows the element + parameter, the operator and expected value, its individual PASS / FAIL / NA, and a short note. The failing condition(s) are highlighted, so you can see exactly which part of the test the system didn't meet. NA rows explain themselves too — they list the applicability condition that wasn't met (i.e. why the test didn't run here).

Privacy: match-only

The breakdown shows only the test definition (element, operator, expected value) and a pass/fail/note — never the actual file contents or command output observed on the host. Nothing sensitive leaves the endpoint.

Requirements

Evidence is captured by the agent, so it needs:

Agents on 0.6.4 or later
A fresh scan after upgrading — results already in the database were recorded before evidence capture and show no "why?" link until the test runs again

Excluding a Finding

Sometimes a failing test doesn't really apply to a given system — a deprecated control, an approved deviation, a known-false-positive. To prevent it from dragging down the compliance score:

Open the live policy report (Policies → View Live Report) or the live system report (Systems → Compliance Report)
Right-click the row of the test you want to exclude
Choose Exclude from the context menu that appears
The row now shows a grey EXCLUDED badge instead of PASS/FAIL/NA, and the per-system + per-policy compliance score is recalculated as if the finding were NA — removed from both numerator and denominator
To restore the finding, right-click the same row and choose Unexclude

Permanence

Exclusions persist across compliance scans — re-running the policy will never clear them. They're only removed automatically when the underlying system or test is deleted. Saved snapshots freeze the exclusion state at save time; archived reports show the badges but cannot be modified.

Role requirements

Excluding and un-excluding findings requires the Editor role or higher.

System Reports

A system report captures the compliance status of every policy applied to a single system at a point in time — a full picture of that system's security posture.

Creating a System Report

graph TD
    A[Systems List] -->|Click clipboard icon| B[Live System Report]
    B -->|Click Save Report| C{System Reports Archive}
    C --> D[View in Browser]
    C --> E[Download PDF]
    C --> F[Delete Record]

Go to Systems and click the clipboard icon on any active system, or navigate directly to Systems → Live Report
The live report shows every policy the system belongs to, with each test result grouped per policy
Click Save Report to archive the current results

System Report Contents

Each saved system report captures:

Field	Description
System Name, OS, IP	System identity at the time of the snapshot
Last Seen	Agent last check-in at time of snapshot
Overall Compliance Score	Aggregate score across all policies
Per-Policy Results	PASS / FAIL / NA / EXCLUDED for every test, grouped by policy
Policy Verdict	COMPLIANT / NON-COMPLIANT / NOT APPLICABLE per policy
Result Counts	Per-policy Passed / Failed / NA / Excluded tallies in the card header
Date & Time	When the report was saved
Saved By	The user who saved the report

Policy Coverage

The system report header includes a collapsible View Policy Coverage section listing every policy the system belongs to, along with each policy's description. This gives auditors immediate context about the scope of controls evaluated.

Viewing Saved Reports

Navigate to Reports to see the full archive. The page has two tabs:

Policy Reports — snapshots saved from the live policy report
System Reports — snapshots saved from the live system report

From either list you can:

View — open the full snapshot in the browser
Download PDF — export a formatted, printable audit report
View Live Report — jump to the current live report for the same policy or system. If the policy or system has since been deleted, this button is replaced with a greyed-out Deleted badge.
Delete — permanently remove the snapshot

Deletion is permanent

Deleted reports cannot be recovered. Export a PDF copy before deleting any record that may be needed for future audits.

Bulk Delete

Select multiple reports using the row checkboxes, then click Delete in the bulk toolbar to remove them all at once.

Role requirements

Saving reports requires the Runner role or higher.
Deleting reports requires the Editor role or higher.

PDF Export

PDF reports are available from both the live report pages and the saved snapshot pages.

Policy Report PDF

Policy name, version, date, and author
Per-system compliance verdict (COMPLIANT / NON-COMPLIANT)
Full breakdown of every test result per system
Compliance summary with pass/fail counts
Disclaimer page

System Report PDF

System name, OS, architecture, IP, last seen, and compliance score
Per-policy sections with verdict (COMPLIANT / NON-COMPLIANT / NOT APPLICABLE)
Policy description under each section heading
Full breakdown of every test result per policy
Disclaimer page

PDF reports are suitable for submission to external auditors and can be stored in your document management system as formal compliance evidence.

Best Practices

Save reports at regular intervals

Even if you use the scheduler for automated scans, establish a routine of saving reports — monthly at minimum, or after any significant infrastructure change.

Save before and after remediation

When you identify and fix a compliance failure, save a report before the fix (to document the gap) and after the fix (to prove remediation). This creates a clean audit trail.

Use both report types

Policy reports answer "did all my systems pass this control framework?" — useful for compliance owners. System reports answer "is this specific host fully compliant?" — useful for system owners and incident responders.

Use policy versioning

When you update a policy, increment the version number before the next scan. This ensures saved reports clearly identify which set of controls was in effect at the time of each snapshot.