Hi Jan,

Thank you so much for your answer! It was really helpful :)

I have one more question with the -oval-results option…. For some reason, it 
did’t show the details with a benchmark I have. I tried with other personal 
benchmark and that one worked. There is something needed in the xccdf or oval 
file to make it works? I reviewed both and I don’t know what is exactly 
happening :/ 

Thank you!

Rocio




> On Jul 1, 2016, at 12:38 AM, Jan Cerny <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Rocio,
> 
> Yes, the result of an XCCDF check can be "informational".
> The XCCDF specification [1] says that:
> 
> The <xccdf:Rule> was checked, but the output from the checking engine is 
> simply
> information for auditors or administrators; it is not a compliance category. 
> This status value is
> designed for <xccdf:Rule> elements whose main purpose is to extract 
> information from the
> target rather than test the target.
> 
> From what I understand, this value is used for rules that are evaluated, but 
> not going to be
> counted into the result score (do not affect the score). That happens if you 
> have an XCCDF rule
> with attribute "role" set to "unscored". 
> However I am sorry I haven't found any check in OpenSCAP that is using this.
> 
> Regarding your second question, OpenSCAP >= 1.2.2 can display OVAL results
> in the HTML report if you run it with "--oval-results", eg.:
> 
> # oscap xccdf eval --results results.xml --oval-results --report report.html 
> my_benchmark.xml
> 
> The HTML report will look like in [2].
> 
> [1] http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistir/ir7275-rev4/NISTIR-7275r4.pdf 
> (page 43)
> [2] 
> https://www.open-scap.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ssg-rhel7-ds-xccdf.report.html
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Jan Černý
> Security Technologies | Red Hat, Inc.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Rocio Romero" <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 9:50:34 PM
>> Subject: [Open-scap] Informational value
>> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I was taking a look to the possibles values we can get from a check in this
>> webpage
>> https://sadocs.emc.com/0_en-us/089_105InfCtr/215_SysAdm/ConfigurSTIG/30_OpenSCAPRpt
>> .
>> 
>> I saw that “Informational” is a valid value. Could you please give me an
>> example of this?
>> 
>> Also, I was wondering if there is any way to return some output from a check
>> and put this output in the report (a friend ask me about that and I’m not
>> sure 100%).
>> 
>> Thank you so much,
>> 
>> Rocio
>> 
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