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Running Compliance for the VMware
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Running Compliance for the VMware Cloud
Infrastructure
Compliance templates evaluate the virtual environment object data to determine if the objects meet the
criteria in the rules. If the property values on an object do not meet the criteria, and if there is no exception
defined, then the object is flagged as noncompliant. When an object is non compliant, the template results
provide the details of the settings or configurations that do not match the rules. You can use this
information to resolve the issue.
Compliance templates include the following components:
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Rule Groups: The rule groups comprise rules and filters.
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Rules: The rules define the optimal configuration standard.
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Filters: The filters limit the objects on which the template runs to only the objects that meet the filter
criteria. If filters are not defined, the rules are run against all objects in the virtual objects group.
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Exceptions: The exceptions are optional temporary or permanent exceptions to the template results.
The defined exception indicates that a specific result is compliant or noncompliant even though it does
not match the requirements of the rules.
After you configure your compliance templates, you can optimize how VCM monitors the compliance of
objects in your environment using alerts and scheduling regular compliance template runs on your
collected virtual environment data.
This chapter includes the following topics:
Create and Run Virtual Environment Compliance Templates 59
Create Virtual Environment Compliance Rule Groups 60
Create and Test Virtual Environment Compliance Rules 61
Create and Test Virtual Environment Compliance Filters 62
Preview Virtual Environment Compliance Rule Groups 62
Create Virtual Environment Compliance Templates 63
Run Virtual Environment Compliance Templates 64
Create Virtual Environment Compliance Exceptions 65
Resolve Noncompliant Virtual Environments Template Results 66
Configure Alerts and Schedule Virtual Environment Compliance Runs 68
Create and Run Virtual Environment Compliance Templates
Create compliance templates that evaluate your virtual environment object data to determine if the
objects meet the criteria in the rules that define objects as compliant or noncompliant.
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