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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

Scheduling compliance


Compliance is an ongoing process and we need to check it at regular intervals to know exactly where we are and whether we need any remediation to be in good state. In the earlier recipe, we scheduled the data collection. Now is the time to consume the data.

Getting ready

We need to have the latest data available in our VCM database to be processed, so schedule the compliance check after few hours of data collection to give it some time to update the database.

How to do it...

To perform the following recipe, log in to VCM with the admin account and follow the steps:

  1. Navigate to Administration | Job Manager| Scheduled and click on Add:

  2. Select Compliance on the Job Type page of the wizard.

  3. Provide Name and Description. You can be creative as there is a limit of characters for the Name, you can use any naming convention as all the scheduled job are going to land at the same place in VCM:

  4. Select the template that you want to check compliance for.

  5. There are some rules that can enforce...