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34 Deployment and Managing Configurations with Dell OpenManage Essentials | Revision A00
10 Configuration Compliance
Configuration compliance detects drift of a device’s attributes from a template’s attributes. A process
called ‘configuration inventory’ gets configuration information (inventory) from all applicable devices and
compares the inventory against an associated compliance template.
10.1 Configuration compliance requirements
1. The file share must be configured (see the How to setup the file share section).
2. The target devices must meet the minimum requirements for the deployment and configuration
features (see the Target device requirements
section).
3. At least one user created template (a cloned sample template is a user created template).
4. Configuration Inventory must be enabled and the target device credentials must be provided.
10.2 How to setup and run the configuration inventory
The configuration inventory task collects the attribute information from all eligible devices. An eligible
device is any device that meets the device configuration target requirements (see the
Target device
requirements section). The inventoried values are used to calculate the compliance of a device against the
device’s associated template.
10.2.1 Modify configuration inventory credentials and/or schedule
The configuration inventory schedule and credentials may be modified. The configuration inventory can
be turned off if network or performance problems are encountered. The steps below describe how to
modify the schedule and set the credentials for the configuration inventory.
1. Navigate to the ‘Configuration’ tab under the ‘Manage’ tab.
2. Click on ‘Configuration Inventory Schedule’ in the left hand navigation under ‘Common Tasks’.
3. If credentials have not been added, click on the ‘Add New Credential’.
a. Enter a unique description name.
b. Enter the username and password that the target devices will use.
c. Select ‘Default’ for a credential to have discovered devices automatically assigned to the
credential. One set of credentials must be assigned as the default.
4. Select the credentials for each device. Each device can have its own set of credentials. Click ‘Next’.