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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

Modifying the default filter set


Now you know that VCM checks compliance on the data collected and available in the database it has and not directly on the live machine. This causes limitation: if a particular data type is not collected, it will not be available, and then, we cannot measure the compliance for the rule and VCM will tell you that the data has not been collected for the rule in the results.

To overcome this situation, we can set lots of collections with different types of filter sets created by VCM or we can modify the default filter set and add required filters.

Note

Note that modifying a default set is not recommended by VMware. Create your own filter set that includes the required filters and use that to perform the collection.

So, what are filters and filter sets?

VCM filters: Filters define what data a VCM agent should collect while performing the collection; examples are a registry setting, service status, file permission, and so on.

VCM filter sets: These are collections of...