Best ways to say this system is not compliant

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Tue Sep 2 15:50:59 UTC 2014


On Tuesday, September 02, 2014 11:43:14 AM Martin Preisler wrote:
> > > So instead I decided to explicitly say how many rules failed or were
> > > inconclusive.
> > >
> > > For example:
> > > "The target system did not satisfy conditions of 131 rules! Furthermore,
> > > the results of 2 rules were inconclusive. Please review rule results
> > > and consider applying remediation."
> >
> > Inconclusive is a word that I would not use. It prejudices the results by
> > indicating that something may or may not be wrong and it can't really
> > tell.
> 
> That is exactly the case. It's not prejudice, it's fact.

Apologies. I think I misread the output. For those two items I think you are 
right.

-Steve


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