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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
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.
Procedure
Using the 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 physical or virtual machines or objects and run compliance against
the collected data. The objects should now be compliant.
Create Virtual Environment Compliance Exceptions
Rather than resolve noncompliant results, exceptions are the method you use to temporarily or
permanently override the specific template 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.
To create an exception in this example, a virtual machine, RHEL_60_ProdDev, is approved to be excluded
from the noncompliant results because you never require VMware Tools to be running on this machine.
Prerequisites
Create a template. See "Create Virtual Environment Compliance Templates" on page 65.
Procedure
1. Click Compliance.
2. Select Virtual Environment Compliance > Templates > template name.
3. Select the noncompliant result on which you are basing the exception and click Add Exception.
In this example, the noncompliant result is the RHEL_60_ProdDev guest machine.
4. Type the Name, Short Description, Description, and Sponsor in the text boxes and click Next.
5. Select the template to which you are applying the exception in the drop-down menu and click Next.
For this example, select Tools Running Not vCenter_Dev.
6. Select the object group to which you are applying the exception and click Next.
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