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Enable Compliance Check
You can decide whether a host profile policy is considered during compliance check.
Procedure
1 Open the Profile Editor for a profile and navigate to the policy you wish to enable for compliance check.
2 On the right side of the Profile Editor, select the Compliance Details tab.
3 Enable the check box for the policy.
NOTE The check box is enabled by default. If you disable the check box so this policy is not checked for
compliance, the other policies that are enabled for compliance check will still be checked.
Manage Profiles
After you create a host profile, you can manage the profile by attaching a profile to a particular host or
cluster and then applying that profile to the host or cluster.
You can associate a profile and a host or cluster either by attaching the profile to the host or cluster, or by
attaching the host or cluster to the profile. You can then apply the profile to the host or cluster.
NOTE A host profile must have a valid reference host associated with it before you can manage the profile.
Attaching Host or Cluster Entities to a Host Profile
If you want to set up a host to use the same configuration as a reference host, you can attach the host to a
profile. You can also attach a cluster to a profile.
Profiles can also be attached to a cluster. In order to be compliant, all hosts within an attached cluster must
be configured according to the profile. Hosts are not automatically configured in accordance to the host
profile that is attached with the cluster when it is added to the cluster. When a host is added to a cluster that
is attached to a profile, the host is automatically attached to the profile.
You can attach a host or cluster to a profile from:
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Host Profiles main view
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Host's context menu
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Cluster's context menu
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Cluster's Profile Compliance tab
Attach Entities from the Host Profiles View
Before you can apply the profile to an entity (host or cluster of hosts), you need to attach the entity to the
profile or the profile to the entity.
You can attach a host or cluster to a profile from the Host Profiles main view.
When a host profile is attached to a cluster, the host or hosts within that cluster are also attached to the host
profile. However, when the host profile is detached from the cluster, the association between the host or
host within the cluster and that host profile remains.
Procedure
1 In the Host Profiles main view, select the profile to which you want to add the host or cluster from the
profile list.
2 Click the Attach Host/Cluster icon.
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