Snooze or Disable Checks

Exceptions let you customize how Mondoo evaluates your compliance with a framework and communicate the reasons for that customization. They tell Mondoo to exclude certain checks when calculating your progress toward full compliance. There are two types of exceptions for checks:

• Snooze a check to temporarily or indefinitely exclude its results from your overall compliance progress percentage. Snoozing is useful when you intend to comply with a check eventually but don't want it distracting your team right now.

• Disable a check to instruct Mondoo to exclude it from your compliance score and explain this exclusion to your team. A check remains disabled unless you re-enable it.

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When you snooze or disable a check, you snooze or disable it for the entire space. A check exception applies to the policy containing the check and impacts all compliance frameworks that use the check.

To learn about frameworks, policies, controls, and checks, read Enable Compliance Frameworks.

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You can also snooze or disable an entire control in a Framework. To learn more, read Snooze or Disable Controls.

Snooze or disable a check

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Only team members with Editor or Owner access can perform this task.

1. In the Mondoo Console, navigate to the space you want to customize.

   

2. In the side navigation bar, under Compliance, select Frameworks.

   

3. Select the framework you want to customize and scroll down to the list of controls.

   

4. Select the control containing the check you want to snooze or disable and then select the Checks tab.

5. Select the box beside the check you want to snooze or disable.

   

6. Select the SET EXCEPTION button.

   

7. Select whether to Snooze or Disable the checks.

   If you select Snooze, select how long to snooze the check. Select Indefinitely to keep the check snoozed unless you un-snooze it.

8. Write a justification for the exception.

9. Select the SAVE EXCEPTION button.

Approve or reject an exception

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Only team members with Editor or Owner access can perform this task.

Exceptions take effect the moment they're added. However, as an extra tracking step, a team member can approve or reject an exception:

• Approving an exception allows it to remain.

• Rejecting an exception removes it and re-enables/unsnoozes the check.

To approve or reject an exception:

1. In the Mondoo Console, navigate to the space you want to work in.

   

2. In the side navigation bar, select Compliance.

   

3. Select the framework you want to work in and scroll down to the list of controls.

   

4. Select the control containing the check you want to snooze or disable and then select the Exceptions tab.

   

5. Find the snoozed or disabled check you want to approve or reject.

   

6. Select the Reject button to remove the exception, or select the Approve button to keep the exception with your approval.

Un-snooze or re-enable a check

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Only team members with Editor or Owner access can perform this task.

1. In the Mondoo Console, navigate to the space you want to work in.

   

2. In the side navigation bar, select Compliance.

   

3. Select the framework you want to work in and scroll down to the list of controls.

4. Select the control containing the check you want to un-snooze or re-enable and select the Checks tab.

   

5. Select the snoozed or disabled check you want to un-snooze or re-enable.

   

6. Select the REMOVE EXCEPTION AND ENABLE button and then confirm the action by selecting the YES, ENABLE THE CHECK button.

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