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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 custom compliance rules for Windows


VCM divides compliance into two broad categories:

  • Machine group compliance

  • Virtual environment compliance

Machine group compliance

In this category, compliance is checked at the operating system level, such as for all the supported versions of Windows or Linux.

Virtual environment compliance

In this category, the compliance of the ESXi hosts, vCenter, and virtual machines present in vCenter is checked.

Now, as we are ready with the rule group, let's start populating it with the rules for our organization. There are two ways we can create the rules: either copy what is created in the standard compliance packs we downloaded in the first recipe and modify it as per our requirement or create the rules from scratch.

In this recipe, we will create a custom compliance rule based on machine group compliance.

Getting ready

We will need a fully ready VCM server, and to copy the rule from another rule group, we should finish the Importing compliance packs recipe...