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Prerequisites
Create a rule group. See "Create and Test Virtual Environment Compliance Rules" on page 63.
Procedure
1. Click Compliance.
2. Select Virtual Environment Compliance > Templates.
3. Click Add.
4. Type the Name and Description in the text boxes and click Next.
For example, Tools Running Not vCenter_Dev and a description.
5. Move the rule group, for this example, Guest Tools Running, to the list on the right and click Next.
6. Select Return both compliant and non-compliant and click Next.
Returning complaint and noncompliant results will help you determine whether your template is
returning the correct results.
7. Review your changes and click Finish.
What to do next
Run the template. See "Run Virtual Environment Compliance Templates" on page 66.
Run Virtual Environment Compliance Templates
Run templates against your collected data to determine which objects are compliant or noncompliant.
When a compliance template is run, the results appear in a report format and a data grid format.
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.
Prerequisites
Create a template. See "Create Virtual Environment Compliance Templates" on page 65.
Procedure
1. Click Compliance.
2. Select Virtual Environment Compliance > Templates.
3. Select your template in the data grid and click Run.
In this example, select Tools Running Not vCenter_Dev.
4. Click OK.
5. When the template run is finished, click Close.
6. Double-click the template name in the data grid.
Unless you turned off the summary view, the Virtual Environments Compliance Results report
appears. The report includes the number of objects that are compliant and the number that are
noncompliant.
7. To view the results in the data grid, click View data grid.
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