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What to do next
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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 68.
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Evaluate the results and resolve any issues on the noncompliant objects.
Resolve Noncompliant Virtual Environments Template Results
The results for the compliance templates indicate whether the rule was compliant or noncompliant, and
whether you can enforce noncompliant results manually or using VCM, or you can add an exception for
expected noncompliant results.
These procedures provide a variety of examples that apply to virtual environments compliance.
Procedure
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"Enforce Compliance Template Results Using VCM Actions" on page 67
Resolve noncompliant results using VCM actions on the data grids to change settings when the action is
not available for enforceable compliance.
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"Manually Enforce Compliance Template Results" on page 68
Resolve noncompliant results by directly accessing the physical or virtual machine, or by accessing the
object in vCenter Server, to change the noncompliant configuration setting.
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"Create Virtual Environment Compliance Exceptions" on page 68
Rather than resolve noncompliant results, exceptions are the method you use to temporarily or
permanently override the specific template results.
Enforce Compliance Template Results Using VCM Actions
Resolve noncompliant results using VCM actions on the data grids to change settings when the action is
not available for enforceable compliance.
For this example, a template includes a rule that requires virtual machines to be powered on. If a virtual
machine is powered off, the object is noncompliant. The compliance remediation action is to power it on.
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 or the Windows
tab or UNIX tab, and browse to the data grid where the action is available.
For example, click Console and select Virtual Environments > vCenter > Guests > Summary.
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