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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

Patching reports


Once the infrastructure has been patched, what we need are fancy reports to show to the management that we are all green in terms of patching. VCM does not disappoint you when it comes to reports–there are multiple preconfigured reports, which can be either scheduled or run on demand and exported to multiple formats such as .xls, .doc, .csv, and .pdf.

Getting ready

We must have a compliance template ready before we can begin with the recipe.

How to do it...

Once logged in to VCM, go to the reporting section.

  1. Navigate to Reports Machine Group Reports | VCM Patching.

    These are the default reports available in VCM for Windows patching:

    Ser

    Name

    Description

    1

    VCM Patching Assessment Based

    These reports use data generated by VCM patching assessments (on the VCM Patching slider) to generate their patch status results

    2

    Patch Status Summary

    This displays the patching status across the enterprise for Windows and Unix

    3

    VCVP Windows Patch Status Details

    This displays details...