About Running Assessments Remotely

To remotely get or set policy, get or set the features of a remote assessment, and run or store an assessment or roster, you must configure authentication between the local node and the remote node. The authentication must be with a non-interactive ssh version of the RAD URI. Specifically, the ssh connection cannot prompt for a password. For instructions, see Configuring Administrators to Run Remote Compliance Commands.

The compliance_mgr RAD module provides programmatic access to the assessment store to create and delete, store and retrieve assessment contents, and to retrieve the assessment metadata. For syntax information, see the compliance(8) man page.