Understanding How to Use Baselines and Address Deviations - PAS Integrity Software Suite - 7.3 - Help - Intergraph

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An administrator defines the baselines you need and integrates workflow cases to match and support your work processes. In some cases, the administrator may choose not to use workflow cases.

For more information about baseline types and recommendations, see Creating and Modifying Baseline Types.

The Baseline Summary window provides a list of the defined baselines. You can identify the number of deviations that exist for each baseline, how many deviations are accepted or under investigation, and how many deviations are not yet assigned to someone to research and evaluate. You can also see the number of workflow cases related to each baseline.

The Current Deviations window allows you to list, filter, sort, and manage existing deviations. When you click on a number of deviations on the Baseline Summary window, Integrity displays the Current Deviations window with the filter options set to display only those deviations. You can see how an item deviates from the baseline, such as a modified property value.

The Disposition options on the Current Deviations window allow you to investigate, and then accept or reject each deviation. If an administrator configured workflows for baselines, these buttons can start a workflow case to track this process and require approvals if desired. If workflows were not configured, the Disposition options set the Disposition and Status fields directly for the selected deviations:

Investigate

Sets the Disposition field to Investigate. If workflows are configured, a workflow case is created with the selected deviations associated with the case. When the workflow case is completed, the Status changes from Current to Investigated.

Accept

If workflows are configured, Integrity creates a workflow case with the selected deviations associated with the case and sets the Disposition field to Accept. When the case is completed, or immediately if workflows are not configured, Integrity sets the Status field to Baseline Changed. Integrity also modifies the baseline to incorporate the deviation and locks the identified deviation.

Reject

If workflows are configured, Integrity creates a workflow case with the selected deviations associated with the case and sets the Disposition field to Reject. When the case is completed, or immediately if workflows are not configured, Integrity sets the Status field to Rejected. Integrity leaves the baseline as is and locks the identified deviation. You should then go to the identified system and change it to match the baseline or the deviation will be identified again in the future.

Over time, a baseline can change as you accept and incorporate new requirements and standards, such as different configuration settings or a new software patch. At specific stages, you may choose to create a new version of the baseline, which also locks the current version. The Baseline Comparison window allows you to compare two versions of a baseline. This capability helps you review how a baseline changes over time and when specific changes were made to the baseline.