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Procedure
1. Click Compliance.
2. Select Machine Groups Compliance > Templates > {template name}.
3. In the Status column, select the rule results that are noncompliant and enforceable, indicated by the
NoncompliantEnforceable icon, and click Enforce.
4. Select Selected items(s) only and click Next.
5. Review the Information page to ensure that you understand the number of items affected by the
enforcement change and click Finish.
6. After the enforcement job finishes, click Refresh.
7. In the Enforcement column, verify that the enforcement action succeeded, indicated by the Succeeded
icon.
What to do next
Collect the appropriate data from the physical or virtual machines or objects and run compliance against
the collected data. The machines or objects should now be compliant.
Enforce Compliance Template Results by Using VCM Actions
You can resolve noncompliant results using VCM actions on the data grids to change settings when the
action is not available for enforceable compliance.
For this example, a template includes a rule that requires virtual machines to be powered on. If a virtual
machine is powered off, the object is noncompliant. The compliance remediation action is to power it on.
Procedure
1. Click Compliance.
2. Select Virtual Environments Compliance > Templates > {template name}.
3. In the Status column, identify the rule results that are noncompliant.
4. Identify the affected physical or virtual machines or virtual objects, and determine the expected value
of the property.
For example, click and drag the Status column heading and the Rule column heading to the filter.
Expand the noncompliant results and the rule related to the power state. The noncompliant object
appears in the object column.
5. To resolve the noncompliant results, click Console and select Virtual Environments, the Windows tab,
or the UNIX tab, and browse to the data grid where the action is available.
For example, click Console and select Virtual Environments > vCenter > Guests > Summary.
6. Select the machines or objects that you identified as noncompliant and click the applicable action
button on the data grid.
For example, select the virtual machines that are powered off that should be powered on to be
compliant and click Power VM On.
7. Follow the prompts to configure the options, select Run action now, and click Finish.
What to do next
Collect the appropriate data from the physical or virtual machines or objects and run compliance against
the collected data. The objects should now be compliant.
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