Users Guide

Monitor device compliance with compliance

templates

Use compliance template to create compliance baselines and then periodically check the configuration compliance status of devices

associated with the baseline. See Manage the device configuration compliance baseline. You can create baseline templates by using

deployment template, reference device, importing from a file. See Manage compliance baseline templates.

By clicking OpenManage Enterprise > Configuration > Compliance, you can view the Overall Compliance Summary page, where

the Template Management tab enables you to manage the templates used to create configuration compliance baselines.

Related tasks

Manage compliance baseline templates

Clone a compliance baseline template

Topics:

• Manage compliance baseline templates

Manage compliance baseline templates

You can create baseline templates by using deployment template, reference device, or by importing from a file.

By clicking OpenManage Enterprise > Configuration > Compliance > Template Management, you can view the list of compliance

templates. On this page:

• You can create compliance template by:

• Using a deployment template. See Create a compliance baseline template from deployment template.

• Using a reference device. See Create a compliance baseline template from reference device.

• Importing from a template file. See Create a compliance baseline by importing from a file.

• Edit a compliance template. See Edit a baseline compliance template.

• Clone a compliance template. See Clone a compliance baseline template.

• Export report about a compliance template. On the Compliance Templates page, select the corresponding check box, and then click

Export. See Export all or selected data.

• Delete a compliance template. On the Compliance Templates page, select the corresponding check box, and then click Delete.

Related information

Manage the device configuration compliance baseline

Edit a configuration compliance baseline

Remove a configuration compliance baseline

Monitor device compliance with compliance templates

Create a compliance baseline template from deployment template

Edit a baseline compliance template

Create a compliance baseline template from deployment

template

1. Click Configuration > Compliance > Template Management > Create > From Deploy Template.

2. In the Clone Deployment Template dialog box, from the Template drop-down menu, select a template that must be used as the

baseline for the new template.

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