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Parallels Mac Management Features
General Page
Specify the general properties of the configuration item:
1 Specify the configuration item Name and an optional Description.
2 Select Mac OS X in the Specify the type of configuration item that you want to create list
box.
3 Click Next.
Supported Platforms Page
Select the OS X versions to which this configuration item should be applicable. Please note that this
selection will be ignored in the future releases of Parallels Mac Management. If at that time you'll
need to exclude a particular OS X version, you can create multiple Mac collections based on the
OS X version criteria and then selectively deploy the configuration item to them.
Settings Page
The Settings page is used to create a set of settings representing the conditions to assess for
compliance on Mac computers. In our case, each setting will evaluate a particular value on a Mac.
To create a new setting:
1 Click New to open the Create Setting dialog.
2 In the Create Setting dialog, specify the setting Name and an optional Description.
3 In the Setting type list box, select Script.
4 In the Data type list box, select the data type of the value that this setting will evaluate on a
Mac. The discovery script that you'll specify later should return a value of the same data type in
the string format.
5 In the Discovery script section, click Add Script. The Edit Discovery Script dialog opens
where you can specify the discovery script. See Creating Discovery Script (p. 84) for the
complete i
nformation.
6 If you would like to create a remediation script, click Add Script in the Remediation script
section. The Create Remediation Script dialog opens where you can specify the remediation
script. See Creating Remediation Script (p. 84) for the complete information.
7 Once you've
specified the discovery and remediation scripts, you need to define compliance
rules specifying the conditions that make the value returned by the discovery script compliant
on Macs. To define compliance rules, make sure that you are back in the Create Setting dialog
and click the Compliance Rules tab. To create a new rule, click New to open the Create Rule
dialog. Use the dialog to define the rule. See Defining Compliance Rules (p. 85) for the
complete i
nformation. You can create more than one rule for a given configuration item setting.
8 When you are finished specifying scripts and compliance rules, click OK in the Create Setting
dialog and then click Next on the Settings page of the wizard.