Installation guide

Option Description
Administration Displays current jobs running, and job history. Use the job history when
troubleshooting the processing of a job. See "Viewing Provisioning Jobs in
the Job Manager" on page 230.
Define user access rules and roles to specify what level of access users
have to the Software Provisioning data and actions in VCM. Click
Administration and select User Rules and Roles > User Manager >
VCM Access to configure the Access Rules and Roles.
Viewing Provisioning Jobs in the Job Manager
The Jobs Manager tells you the state of a currently running Provisioning job, including the success or
failure of a job, either collecting data from machines or installing, updating, or removing packages from
machines.
The currently running provisioning jobs are visible in the following locations:
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Jobs button. Located on the portal toolbar.
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Administration slider. Select Administration > Job Manager > Running.
Job history is available in Administration > Job Manager > Other Jobs. The provisioning related job
names include the following types of jobs:
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Change Request: Add Source
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Change Request: Remove Source
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Change Request: Install Package
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Change Request: Remove Package
Create Compliance Rules Based on Software Provisioning Data
A Compliance rule based on software provisioning data detects any packages or sources that are out of
compliance. You can configure remediation actions to bring the machines back into compliance.
In this example the Compliance rule checks whether the source, where the values are platform=Any and
section=Release, was added to selected Package Managers as a source. If not, then add the repository
source to the machines where the rule fails.
Procedure
1. Click Compliance.
2. Select Machine Group Compliance > Rule Groups.
3. Expand your rule group and select Rules.
4. On the Rules data grid, click Add.
5. Type a Name and Description for your rule and click Next.
6. On the Data Type page, expand Windows and select the data type on which you are basing the rule
and click Next.
In this example, select Software Provisioning - Package Managers - Sources.
7. On the Rule Type page, select Conditional (if/then) and click Next.
8. On the Conditional Data page, configure the options.
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