Installation guide

Prerequisites
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Verify that you have virtual environment alert rules. See "Create Virtual Environment Compliance
Alert Rules" on page 69.
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Review the automated response options, which you configure in this procedure, in the online Help.
Procedure
1. Click Administration.
2. Select Alerts > Virtual Environments Configurations.
3. In the middle pane, select the virtual objects group for which you want to generate an alert if one or
more rules in the template fail.
4. Click Add.
5. Select a virtual environments compliance results alert rule and click Next.
6. Select the alert severity and click Next.
You can select Critical, Important, Moderate, or Low.
7. Select and configure one or more automated responses that are performed when an alert is generated
and click Next.
Depending on the automated responses you selected, the pages will vary. See the online Help for
configuration details.
8. Review the alert configuration and click Finish.
What to do next
Schedule a job to run your the virtual environments compliance templates on a timetable of your
choosing. See "Schedule Virtual Environments Compliance Template Runs" on page 70.
Schedule Virtual Environments Compliance Template Runs
You can schedule a regular run of your virtual environments compliance templates to ensure that the
collected data is regularly assessed for adherence to the defined compliance rules.
Compliance templates are run against collected data, so you should also schedule collections for the data
types and virtual objects that you are assessing.
Prerequisites
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Schedule a regular collection of the virtual environments data types for the virtual object groups
against which you are running the virtual environments compliance templates.
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Create Virtual Environments Compliance Template. See "Create and Run Virtual Environment
Compliance Templates" on page 59.
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Create Virtual Environments Compliance Alerts. See "Create Virtual Environment Compliance Alert
Rules" on page 69.
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