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Related Software Provisioning Actions
You can use the following management options in VCM when working with software provisioning:
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Job Manager: Displays current jobs running, and job history. Use the job history when troubleshooting
the processing of a job. See "Viewing Provisioning Jobs in the Job Manager" on page 190 for more
information.
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Compliance: You can create compliance rules based on software provisioning data types, and you can
add provisioning remediation actions to rules.
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"Creating Compliance Rules based on Provisioning Data" on page 190
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"Creating Compliance Rules containing Provisioning Remediation Actions" on page 191
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User Rules and Roles: You can define user access rules and roles to specify what level of access users
have to the Software Provisioning data and actions in VCM. Select Administration | User Rules and
Roles | User Manager | VCM Access to configure the Access Rules and Roles.
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Reports: You can run reports on collected Software Provisioning data. Select Reports | Machine
Group Reports | Software Provisioning to run the default reports, or you can create your own.
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Change Management: All Software Provisioning are available for auditing as part of Change
Management. Select Console | Change Management | VCM Initiated or Non VCM Initiated to
view the data.
Software Provisioning actions are not eligible for rollback through Change Management. The undoing
of any unwanted changes can be handled using Compliance enforcement remediation actions. See
"Creating Compliance Rules containing Provisioning Remediation Actions" on page 191 for general
information about remediation.
Non VCM Initiated changes related to Software Provisioning include publishing packages to
repositories from Package Studioand manually running command line actions in Package Manager.
Viewing Provisioning Jobs in the Job Manager
The Jobs Manager tells you the state of a currently running Provisioning job, including the success or
failure of a job, either collecting data from machines or installing, updating, or removing packages from
machines.
The currently running provisioning jobs are visible in the following locations:
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Jobs button, located on the portal toolbar.
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Administration slider. Select Administration | Job Manager | Running.
Job history is available in Administration | Job Manager | Other Jobs. The provisioning related job
names include the following:
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Change Request: Add Source
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Change Request: Remove Source
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Change Request: Install Package
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Change Request: Remove Package
Creating Compliance Rules based on Provisioning Data
A Compliance rule based on Provisioning data can detect any packages or sources that are out of
compliance. You can also configure remediation actions to bring the machines back into compliance.
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