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For this example, you are working with a Windows or Linux machine, either a physical machine or a
virtual machine. This example assumes that you are not auto-enforcing the noncompliant results during
the compliance run.
Procedure
1. Click Compliance.
2. Select the compliance template.
For example, Machine Groups Compliance > Templates > {template name}.
3. In the Status column, select the rule results that are noncompliant and enforceable, indicated by the
NoncompliantEnforceable icon, and click Enforce.
4. Select Selected item(s) only and click Next.
5. Review the Information page to ensure that you understand the number of items affected by the
enforcement change and click Finish.
6. After the enforcement job finishes, click Refresh.
7. In the Enforcement column, verify that the enforcement action succeeded, indicated by the Succeeded
icon.
After enforcing compliance, VCM performs another data collection.
What to do next
View the results to verify that the machines or objects are now compliant.
Enforce Compliance Template Results by Using VCM Actions
You can resolve noncompliant results using VCM actions on the data grids to change settings when the
action is not available for enforceable compliance.
For this example, a template includes a rule where snapshots older than a particular date must not exist. If
a virtual machine snapshot exists older than the specified date, the object is noncompliant. The compliance
remediation action is to delete the older snapshots that make the object noncompliant. You can delete a
virtual machine snapshot as an enforceable action in compliance, or you can use the VCM action to
manually make the object compliant.
Procedure
1. Click Compliance.
2. Select Virtual Environments Compliance > Templates > {template name}.
3. In the Status column, identify the rule results that are noncompliant.
4. Identify the affected physical or virtual machines or virtual objects, and determine the expected value
of the property.
For example, click and drag the Status column heading and the Rule column heading to the filter.
Expand the noncompliant results and the rule related to the power state. The noncompliant object
appears in the object column.
5. To resolve the noncompliant results, click Console and select Virtual Environments, select the
Windows tab or the UNIX tab, and browse to the data grid where the action is available.
For example, click Console and select Virtual Environments > vCenter > Guests > Snapshot.
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