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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 templates


Now that we are ready with all the required rule groups with the necessary filters and they have been populated with all the rules to fulfill the requirements given by the security officer, we need to move ahead and start checking compliance. But wait, we can't check compliance against a rule or rule groups; we will need a compliance template, which can have all the required rule groups.

So let's start by creating our compliance template for Windows-related rule groups.

Getting ready

We will need all the required rule groups created and they should be populated with the associated rules in a fully functional VCM server.

How to do it...

By now, you must already know where you should go to create your compliance template; if not, just follow this process and you will be learn that as well:

  1. Go to Compliance | Machine  Group  Compliance | Templates and then click on Add.

  2. Once the wizard for creating a new template is launched, provide a proper Name and Description value...