Installation guide

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.
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 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.
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