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Parallels Mac Management Features
To create a rule, do the following in the Create Rule dialog:
1 Specify the rule Name and an optional Description.
2 Set the Rule type to Value.
3 Use the The setting must comply with the following rule section to specify the rule.
4 If you specified a remediation script for this configuration item setting, you may select the Run
the specified remediation script when this setting is noncompliant option. If this option is
selected and the value is noncompliant, the remediation script will be executed and the value
will be passed to it as a parameter.
5 The Report noncompliance if this setting instance is not found option affects the
compliance or non-compliance reporting. When the script execution doesn't fail, but doesn't
return any data either, the rule is not evaluated. Instead, the compliance status is determined by
the state of this option as follows:
• If the option is selected, compliance is reported.
• If the option is cleared, non-compliance is reported.
6 Click OK to create the rule and close the dialog.
You can create more than one rule for a given configuration item setting. If there's more than one
rule, they will be connected using the logical AND operator. Therefore, for a value to be compliant,
all rules must evaluate as TRUE.
Deploying Configuration Baseline
Once you've created one or more configuration items, you need to add them to a configuration
baseline. Configuration baseline is a container that combines configuration items into a logical unit
so they can be evaluated for compliance by Macs as a group. You can add configuration items to
an existing baseline or you can create a new one.
To create a configuration baseline:
1 In the Configuration Manager console, navigate to Assets and Compliance / Overview /
Compliance Settings.
2 Right-click Configuration Baselines and then click Create Configuration Baseline in the
pop-up menu. The Create Configuration Baseline dialog opens.
3 Enter the desired configuration baseline name and description.
4 Click the Add button and then select the configuration items that you want to add to the
baseline. Click OK and click OK again.
The new configuration baseline will appear in the Configuration Baselines list. You can click
Refresh on the toolbar to refresh the list.
Once a configuration baseline is created, you need to deploy it to a Mac collection.
To deploy a configuration baseline: