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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 virtualization


So far, we created compliance rules for machine group compliance, that is, for Windows and Linux. Now, we will create a rule for virtual environment compliance. We can't continue with our example of minimum password length in this virtual world, so we will change it to another requirement we have, that is, the snapshot for a VM should not be retained for more than 10 days.

So, let's start and see how many VMs are noncompliant with our rule by first creating one.

Getting ready

We need a rule group created to store the virtualization compliance rules in a fully deployed and functional VCM server.

How to do it...

Like our previous experience with rules, this one can also be copied from another standard pack if you know where to copy from; the process is similar to that for Windows rules, so we will not repeat it here.

We will start creating a new rule using the following steps:

  1. Once again, we need to log in to VCM with admin privileges and reach...