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VMware vRealize Configuration Manager Cookbook

By : Abhijeet Shriram Janwalkar
Book Image

VMware vRealize Configuration Manager Cookbook

By: Abhijeet Shriram Janwalkar

Overview of this book

VMware vRealize Configuration Manager (VCM) helps you to automate IT operations, manage performance, and gain visibility across physical and virtual infrastructure. It is continuously being used by enterprises to audit the configurations of the VMware infrastructure as well as the Windows, Linux, and UNIX operating systems. This book is filled with practical recipes through which you will learn about the latest features of vRealize Configuration Manager 5.8.X, starting with installation of various tiers of VCM followed by configuration management across physical and virtual servers. Throughout this book, you will explore how VCM can perform tasks such as patch management, compliance assessment, and software package distribution along with Machine filters for new platforms such as RHEL 7 and Windows 10. This book will ease your troubles while upgrading from the existing VCM to the latest version by providing you with step-by-step instructions about the process of migration along with upgrade and maintenance support. This book will help you understand how to integrate vRealize Configuration with other applications along with schedule management and also guide you on how to handle security issues. After reading this book, you will have a clear understanding of how VCM fits in the overall picture of the data center design from a patching and compliance perspective.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
VMware vRealize Configuration Manager Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
11
Understanding VCM Console

Creating a patch assessment template


A patch assessment template is basically list of patches that will be installed on managed machines or will be used to check patch compliance against.

Getting ready

We need internet access on the Collector server to download patch metadata.

How to do it...

Log in to the VCM console and follow these steps to create the required assessment template:

  1. Navigate to Patching | All UNIX/Linux Platforms | Assessment  Templates and click on Add.

  2. Templates can be created under individual Unix/Linux platforms as well.

  3. Give the template a descriptive name and add a description.

  4. Select Static as the type of template. Here is the difference between a static and dynamic template:

    • Static template: With this, we can choose which patches are to be included in the template.

    • Dynamic template: With this, VCM selects patches depending upon the query we set.

  5. If we selected a dynamic template, we have options to formulate queries, such as OS Name, OS Version, and Severity, and we can...