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d In the lter text box in the Alert Denitions pane, enter hardening.
Several alert denitions appear, which you use to enforce compliance on your objects. Each alert
displays the number of symptoms and the object type to which the alert applies. You can see the
alert denitions for risk proles 1, 2, and 3, which you use to ensure high, medium, or low security
on your virtual machines.
e Click the alert named vCenter is violating vSphere Hardening Guide.
f In the State column, click the down arrow, and select Local.
g To enable compliance alerts on your virtual machines, distributed port groups, and distributed
switches, enable the other alert denitions, and click Save.
3 View the symptom set in the alert denition for the ESXi host.
a Click Content > Alert .
b In the lter text box, enter hardening.
c Click the alert named vCenter is violating vSphere Hardening Guide.
d In the lower pane, locate the alert impact, criticality, and symptom set.
e Scroll through the symptom set and examine the symptoms, which can trigger an alert, for the host.
f Below the symptom set, examine the recommendation to x the problem if this alert triggers on
your host.
g Click the link to the VMware vSphere Hardening Guide.
The Web page opens to the list of VMware vSphere Security Hardening Guides at
hp://www.vmware.com/security/hardening-guides.html.
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