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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 71.
Schedule Virtual Environments Compliance Template Runs
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 61.
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Create Virtual Environments Compliance Alerts. See "Create Virtual Environment Compliance Alert
Rules" on page 70.
Procedure
1. Click Administration.
2. Select Job Manager > Scheduled.
3. Click Add.
4. Select Compliance and click Next.
5. Type a name and description in the text boxes and click Next.
6. Select the virtual environment template and click Next.
7. Select the virtual objects against which to run the template assessment and click Next.
8. Configure frequency, time of day, and duration for the job and click Finish.
9. To test whether the job is producing the expected results, click Run Now on the data grid toolbar.
The job runs at the scheduled time.
What to do next
If you a configured virtual environments compliance alert for this template and non-compliant rules were
found, you can review any alerts in the Alerts node in the Console.
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