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If you find results that you want to temporarily make compliant or noncompliant, create an exception.
See "Create Virtual Environment Compliance Exceptions" on page 67.
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Evaluate the results and resolve any issues on the noncompliant objects.
Create Virtual Environment 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.
The example used in this procedure is whether VMware Tools is running on guest virtual machines on all
vCenter Server instances, but excluding vCenter_Dev.
To create an exception in this example, a virtual machine, RHEL_60_ProdDev, is approved to be excluded
from the noncompliant results because you never require VMware Tools to be running on this machine.
Prerequisites
Create a template. See "Create Virtual Environment Compliance Templates" on page 63.
Procedure
1. Click Compliance.
2. Select Virtual Environment Compliance > Templates > template name.
3. In the data grid, select the noncompliant result on which you are basing the exception and click Add
Exception.
In this example, the noncompliant result is the RHEL_60_ProdDev guest 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 this example, select Tools Running Not vCenter_Dev.
6. Select the object group to which you are applying the exception and click Next.
For this example, select All Virtual Objects.
7. Select the override options and the expiration date.
a. Select Override non-compliant results to compliant.
b. Select No Expiration.
c. Click Next.
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