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You have ensured that the compliance rules, are enforced on the objects in your vCenter Server instances,
according to the VMware vSphere Hardening Guide.
What to do next
To examine the compliance alert denitions for your other objects, click Content > Alert .
User Scenario: Define a Compliance Standard for Custom Standards
As a virtual infrastructure administrator, you are responsible for the vCenter Server instances, hosts, virtual
machines, distributed port groups, and distributed switches in your environment. To ensure the compliance
of your vSphere objects, you create a compliance standard based on an alert denition.
In vRealize Operations Manager, you can congure an alert denition to use as a compliance standard. Any
alert denition that you congure with the subtype named Compliance appears on the Compliance tab.
When you create an alert denition as a compliance standard, you add all the relevant symptom denitions
to the alert denition. Each symptom is a rule in the compliance standards. For most alert denitions, you
must avoid adding too many symptoms to the alert denition.
vRealize Operations Manager includes alerts for VMware vSphere Hardening Guide versions 6.0 and 5.5.
You can nd the vSphere Hardening Guides at hp://www.vmware.com/security/hardening-guides.html.
In this scenario, the alert noties you when SSH is not running on the host.
Procedure
1 Congure Basic Information for the Host Compliance Standard on page 78
To create an alert denition that is also a compliance standard, you rst congure the name, base
object type, and the alert impact.
2 Add Symptoms to the Host Compliance Standard on page 79
You add symptoms and recommendations to the alert denition so that when the host system
compliance alert is generated, the symptoms appear as rules on the Compliance tab.
Configure Basic Information for the Host Compliance Standard
To create an alert denition that is also a compliance standard, you rst congure the name, base object
type, and the alert impact.
The name of the alert is the name of the standard on the Compliance tab.
Procedure
1 In the left pane of vRealize Operations Manager, click the Content icon.
2 Click Alert  and click the plus sign to add a denition.
3 Type a name and description.
In this scenario, enter Organization Host Compliance Standards.
4 Click Base Object Type, expand vCenter Adapter in the drop-down menu, and select Host System.
5 Click Alert Impact and congure the metadata for this alert denition.
a From the Impact drop-down menu, select Risk.
b From the Criticality drop-down menu, select Symptom Based.
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