Compliance Calibrator 5.1 Alert File generation

Greetings,
I would like to understand how the Compliance Calibrator (CC) 5.1 Alert Generation File is created.  I specify a file name in 'Configuration/Miscellaneous/Alert Log Filename & Location', and schedule the job via 'Configuration/Background Job/Alert Generation'.  The file is updated daily, but where is the data pulled from?  It looks like the data is sorted daily by User ID and tcode.  The data looks like it could come from the Security Audit Logs on ABAP instance, but would this be required?
Any technical information would be helpful.
Thank you,
Rob

Hi Rob,
  There are different types of alerts, which can be generated by Compliance Calibrator:
  a) system finds that certain mitigation reports were not run in time;
  b) end users executed critical transaction, listed in one of your risks;
  c) end user executed conflicting transactions, lsited in one of your risks.
  So, the data is pulled from your ABAP system. And it explains why you get the list of user IDs and tcodes.
  Please, advise whether it asnwers your question ? And if yes, award the points accordingly
Best regards,
Laziz

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    The following are the instructions at the "bottom" of the loop which never ends. Below, I put "***" at the jump instruction I mentioned earler. If I force the carry flag to be 0 at that point, and the jump is skipped, the export completed successfully. Additionally, notice that [esp-0x1c] is 0x2000, and that both eax and edi are 0. When I see it loop, eax stays at 0 and never reaches 0x2000. I wonder if something about the AVI is causing values used by this importer to be such that it causes this endless loop, and if that's the case, and if such values are valid/good, I'm wondering if the importer can be fixed by being able to detect such values so as to not choke (if in fact it's an importer issue).
    1239dda2 50 push eax
    1239dda3 ffd1 call ecx
    1239dda5 8b442424 mov eax,dword ptr [esp+24h]
    1239dda9 015c2428 add dword ptr [esp+28h],ebx
    1239ddad 03c7 add eax,edi
    1239ddaf 83c410 add esp,10h
    1239ddb2 3b44241c cmp eax,dword ptr [esp+1Ch]
    1239ddb6 89442414 mov dword ptr [esp+14h],eax
    ; *** This is where it loops around and around.
    1239ddba 0f82f2feffff jb ImporterAVI!xImportEntry+0xf32 (1239dcb2)
    ImporterAVI!xImportEntry+0x1040:
    1239ddc0 8b542420 mov edx,dword ptr [esp+20h]
    1239ddc4 52 push edx
    1239ddc5 e810d40000 call ImporterAVI!xImportEntry+0xe45a (123ab1da)
    1239ddca 83c404 add esp,4
    ImporterAVI!xImportEntry+0x104d:
    1239ddcd 5f pop edi
    1239ddce 5e pop esi
    1239ddcf 5d pop ebp
    1239ddd0 33c0 xor eax,eax
    1239ddd2 5b pop ebx
    1239ddd3 83c428 add esp,28h
    1239ddd6 c3 ret
    ChildEBP RetAddr Args to Child
    WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong.
    3195d9b8 12387545 10590f9c 27c53e00 06b35ff6 ImporterAVI!xImportEntry+0x103a
    3195d9ec 1239ea10 06b35ff6 00000000 27ad8a60 ImporterAVI+0x7545
    3195da1c 1238aa31 06b3554b 00000000 7fdf0000 ImporterAVI!xImportEntry+0x1c90
    00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ImporterAVI+0xaa31
    [esp-1Ch]: 3195d9a0 00002000
    eax=00000000 ebx=00000000 ecx=3195dbcc edx=00000000 esi=27ad8a60 edi=00000000
    eip=1239ddba esp=3195d984 ebp=3c7ba50b iopl=0 nv up ei ng nz na pe cy
    cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00000287
    ImporterAVI!xImportEntry+0x103a:
    1239ddba 0f82f2feffff jb ImporterAVI!xImportEntry+0xf32 (1239dcb2) [br=1]

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