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Resolve Non-Compliant Rules for Compliance Templates
The Compliance score is is a value based on template rules that are run in VCM. To improve score, view the
template results and determine how to resolve non-compliant rules for the target objects.
When you are working in VCM, click the Help icon to access information about the page on which you are
working and for more information about the available actions.
Prerequisites
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Select the template for which you are evaluating results. See “View the Compliance Details,” on
page 31.
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If you do not see the name of the object for which you are resolving non-compliant results, correlate the
name that appears in VCM with the name used in vCenter Operations Manager. See “Correlate
Compliance Object Names,” on page 33.
Procedure
1 On the VMware vCenter Configuration Manager page, click Login.
The selected template results appear in the VCM console.
2 Review the status column to identify the non-compliant rules that require your attention.
3 Resolve non-compliance results.
Click Help on the template results data grid for more information about the following options for
resolving non-compliant results.
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Use enforceable compliance to enforce results.
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Use VCM to enforce non-enforceable compliance results.
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Manually change the settings or configurations.
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Add exceptions when you expect the object to not meet the rule and you do not want to see it again
as a non-compliant object.
4 Collect data from the machine groups and virtual object groups for which resolved non-compliant
results.
5 Run the mappings in VCM.
When you run the mappings, the templates are run for the objects.
6 To review the badge scores in VCM, click Console and select Dashboard > Virtual Environments >
vCenter Operations Manager Compliance Rollup.
Verify the scores to ensure that you resolved all the necessary non-compliant results.
What to do next
In vCenter Operations Manager, review the Compliance badge scores to ensure that your scores are now at
acceptable levels. You must allow approximately five minutes for vCenter Operations Manager to pull the
new scores from VCM.
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