Users Guide

Monitoring 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 Managing the device configuration compliance baseline. You can create baseline templates by using
deployment template, reference device, importing from a file. See Managing 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
Managing compliance baseline templates
Cloning a compliance baseline template
Topics:
• Managing compliance baseline templates
Managing 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 Creating a compliance baseline template from deployment template.
• Using a reference device. See Creating a compliance baseline template from reference device.
• Importing from a template file. See Creating a compliance baseline by importing from a file.
• Edit a compliance template. See Editing a baseline compliance template.
• Clone a compliance template. See Cloning 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 Exporting all or selected data.
• Delete a compliance template. On the Compliance Templates page, select the corresponding check box, and then click Delete.
Related information
Managing the device configuration compliance baseline
Editing a configuration compliance baseline
Removing a configuration compliance baseline
Monitoring device compliance with compliance templates
Creating a compliance baseline template from deployment template
Editing a baseline compliance template
Creating 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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