Managing Rulesets

Rulesets are sets of rules that are applied to a platform scan. 

You can manage and customize your rulesets from the Rulesets section in the Admin portal. This is a Quality Clouds admin action, available for admin users in the Admin portal.

Reviewing rulesets #

If you’ve just set up your Quality Clouds environment, we recommend that you review the baseline ruleset which will be applied to your first scan. 

You can quickly review all the rules used by Quality Clouds, or check out the rules by specific SaaS configuration element of by impact area. 

→ To review a ruleset #

1. In the Quality Clouds Admin portal, go to Rulesets section. Your existing ruleset is displayed. 

You can now filter out the information that is interesting for you, such as severity, impact area, time to fix, etc. to review rules of your interest. 

Customizing rulesets #

As you customize your rules – ignore or overwrite them – you are going to see updated values for your top-level KPIs, such as the Quality of Cloud, technical debt, etc. as well as for the total number of issues. You are always able to compare the values to the baseline ones in the views and in the summary emails you receive. 

Ignoring rules #

You can remove specific rules from a ruleset that is applied to a scan.

How to ignore a rule ? #

1. Log in in Quality Clouds platform.
2. Go to Rulesets section.
3. Find your instance.
4. Select the issue you wish to ignore.
5. Click on the ‘Ignore rule‘ icon’

The rule will now be excluded from the ruleset applied to your scan. 

How to enable again a rule that has been ignored?

Customizing rules #

Custom rules are rules defined by you, which ignore or override specific rules of the default set of best practices provided by Quality Clouds. The quality metrics obtained by applying this set of rules, are labeled as Custom Ruleset Metrics, and are displayed in a prominent place in the views.

You can customize individual rules by changing their severity and time to fix. This will change the overall calculation of your instance profile. A rule is rewritten, when the severity and time to fix change

How to customize a rule ? #

1. Log in in Quality Clouds platform.
2. Go to Rulesets section.
3. Find your instance.
4. Select the issue you wish to edit.
5. Click on the ‘Edit rule‘ icon’.
6. Choose the new desired severity, and/or modify the time to fix for the rule.
7. Click Save.

The rule has now been changed, and will be taken into account in the next scan. 

Restoring rules #

You can restore the rule that was previously rewritten.

→ To restore a rule to default setting #

1. In the Quality Clouds Admin portal, go to Rulesets section. 
2. Select your instance.
3. Search for the rule you want to restore. You can filter on the rule status by selecting rewritten value.
4. Once you located the rule you want to restore, select the rule and click on the Restore to default icon to restore a rewritten rule.

The rule has now been restored.

Updating in batch #

You can update several rules at the same time. For example, you can filter for all rules relating to a specific CE type, or of specific impact area or severity and perform the following actions:

• ignore multiple rules
• rewrite multiple rules to the same values (severity, and/or time to fix)
• restore rules

Ignore rules in batch #

Updating rules in batch #

Restoring rules in batch #

Copying rulesets #

You can reuse en existing custom ruleset from one instance to another, by copying it.

→ To copy a ruleset #

1. In the Quality Clouds Admin portal, go to Rulesets section. 
2. Select an instance from which you want to copy your ruleset.
3. Click the Copy ruleset icon.
4. Select one or more instances for which you want to copy to, and confirm.

You have now copied the ruleset to other instances, and it will be applied in the next scan.

Currently it is not possible to copy the customized threshold values you might have added.