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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 compliance exceptions


As you know, every rule has an exception, and this is applicable to compliance as well. You create a rule for disabling the print spooler service on all servers, and then you have print servers that need this service running. Now, we can't disable this service if we know this is a known and accepted deviation, and we don't want our compliance score to get a hit because of this. What we can do is add an exception so that this will not create issues when checking compliance.

Getting ready

Our organization has a policy to disable unwanted services on servers, and the print spooler is considered an unwanted service, so it must be disabled on all the servers. Of course, the exceptions are the print servers. We will create an exception for the print server machine group to be excused from this mandate.

We will need the required rules created in VCM along with a machine group that includes all the print servers.

How to do it...

Let's create an exception for our print servers...