Installation guide

Manually Enforce Compliance Template Results
You can resolve noncompliant results by directly accessing the virtual or physical machine, or by accessing
the object in vCenter Server, to change the noncompliant configuration setting.
Procedure
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Using your allowed methods, change the noncompliant setting value on the machine or object to the
required compliant value.
What to do next
Collect the appropriate data from the virtual or physical machines or objects and run compliance against
the collected data. The objects should now be compliant.
Create Machine Group Compliance Exceptions
To temporarily or permanently override the specific template results, use exceptions rather than explicitly
resolve noncompliant results.
The exceptions are defined against the template results and indicate that a specific result is compliant or
noncompliant even though it does not match the requirements of the rules.
You can add exceptions only to existing templates.
This procedure demonstrates how to check whether your Linux machines, except those running 64-bit
operating systems, have at least a 5GB hard drive capacity.
Prerequisites
Create a template. See "Create Machine Group Compliance Templates" on page 187.
Procedure
1. Click Compliance.
2. Select Machine Group Compliance > Templates > template name.
3. In the data grid, select the noncompliant result on which you are basing the exception and click Add
Exception.
For example, the noncompliant result is the RHEL_60_TestDev machine.
4. Type the name, short description, description, and sponsor in the text boxes and click Next.
5. Select the template to which you are applying the exception in the drop-down menu and click Next.
For example, select Disk Cap > 5 GB not 64bit.
6. Select the machine group to which you are applying the exception and click Next.
For this example, select All UNIX Machines.
7. Select the override options and the expiration date.
a. Select Override non-compliant results to compliant.
b. Select No Expiration.
c. Click Next.
8. To define the exception values, modify, delete, or add to the properties, operators, and values for the
Running and Enforcing Compliance
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