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Compliance mappings should include templates that evaluate your environment in a way that helps to
identify performance issues. For example, you have an object setting that should be addressed if it is
found to be noncompliant from the configuration standard, but it does not require immediate
attention.
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VCM Only scores are available only in VCM.
The VCM Only mapping scores are not pulled into vCenter Operations Manager. The scores are
intended to provide mapping of multiple templates and scores only in VCM. For example, you can use
this mapping to test a new mapping in VCMbefore you begin reporting the scores in vCenter
Operations Manager.
The roll up type calculations for each badge determine the initial score.
Roll Up Types
The roll up types determine how the template results are initially scored.
When you create a compliance template, each template includes one or more rules, and you assign each
rule a severity level of Low, Moderate, Important, and Critical. Each rule includes one or more individual
checks that return one or more results for each check. The results for the individual checks that are made
on the target machine or object determine if the object is compliant or noncompliant.
For the Weighted Percentage and Weighted Rule Percentage roll up types, you can apply a weighted
value. The weighting is the value by which the result or rule is multiplied to give the different severity
levels more or less weight when calculating the scores. The weighting of the severity levels is configured in
the Standards Compliance Settings. The default values are Low=1, Moderate=2, Important=4, and
Critical=8.
Simple Percentage is the percentage of the template results that are compliant. This option does not weight
the results based on severity. For example, the simple percentage score for the results is 73. This score is
calculated based on 11 compliant results out of a total of 15 results.
Severity Compliant Results Noncompliant Results
Critical 1 4
Important 2 0
Moderate 3 0
Low 5 0
Total 11 4
Table 5–1. Simple Percentage Template Results
Weighted Percentage is the percentage of the template results that are compliant where the Critical
severity rule results are weighted more heavily than the Low severity rules results. For example, the
weighted percentage score for the results is 46. This score is calculated based on a weighted value of 27
compliant results out of a total of 59 results.
Severity Severity
Weight
Compliant
Results
Weighting
Calculations
Weighted
Compliant
Results
Noncompliant
Results
Weighting
Calculations
Weighted
Noncompliant
Results
Critical 8 1 8*1=8 8 4 8*4=32 32
Important 4 2 4*2=8 8 0 4*0=0 0
Moderate 2 3 2*3=6 6 0 2*0=0 0
Low 1 5 1*5=5 5 0 1*0=0 0
Total 27 32
Table 5–2. Weighted Percentage Template Results
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