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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 rule groups


In the previous recipe, we imported a compliance pack, which created the required rules, rule groups, filters, and templates. When we want to check compliance against our own standards, we need to create each of them. In this recipe, we will create a compliance rule group.

Getting ready

We need a working VCM server and credentials to log in as administrator on it.

How to do it...

This is a two-part recipe; first, we will create a rule group and then will create the required filters.

Creating a rule group

Here are the steps to create a rule group:

  1. Log in to VCM using an admin account.

  2. Go to Compliance | Machine Group Compliance | Rule Group.

  3. Click on the green plus sign to create a new rule group.

  4. It will launch a wizard; fill in an appropriate name and provide a description. It is best practice to have some naming conventions while creating such things. We will look at naming conventions in detail in Appendix ADefining Naming Conventions. In this case, we are creating...