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.
We will need all the required rule groups created and they should be populated with the associated rules in a fully functional VCM server.
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:
Go to Compliance | Machine Group Compliance | Templates and then click on Add.
Once the wizard for creating a new template is launched, provide a proper Name and Description value...