6.5.1

A non-compliant status indicates a discovered and specific inconsistency between the profile and the
host. To resolve this, you should remediate the host. Any unknown status indicates that the compliance of
the host could not be verified; to resolve the issue, remediate the host through the host profile. Very often
the compliance check fails because the host is disconnected.
Note Host profiles do not capture offline or unpresented devices. Any changes made to offline devices
after extracting a host profile will not make a difference to the compliance check results.
What to do next
To see more detail on compliance failures, select a Host Profile from the Objects tab for which the last
compliance check produced one or more failures. In order to see specific detail on which parameters
differ between the host that failed compliance and the Host Profile, click on the Monitor tab and select the
Compliance view. Then, expand the object hierarchy and select the failing host. The differing parameters
are displayed in the Compliance window, below the hierarchy.
Remediate a Host
In the event of a compliance failure, use the Remediate function to apply the host profile settings onto the
host. This action changes all Host Profile managed parameters to the values contained in the profile
attached to the host.
Prerequisites
Verify that the profile is attached to the host.
Procedure
1 Navigate to the profile you want to remediate to the host.
2 Right-click the host profile and select Remediate.
Note Certain Host Profile policy configurations require that the host be rebooted after remediation.
In those cases, you are prompted to place the host into maintenance mode. You might be required to
place hosts into maintenance mode before remediation. Hosts that are in a fully-automated DRS
cluster are placed into maintenance mode at remediation. For other cases, the remediation process
stops if the host is not placed into maintenance mode when it is needed to remediate a host.
3 Select the host or hosts you want to remediate with the host profile.
The host profile will be applied to each host that you select.
4 Enter the host customizations to specify host properties or browse to import a host customization file.
5 (Optional) You can update or change the user input parameters for the Host Profiles policies by
customizing the host, and click Next.
See Host Profiles and vSphere Auto Deploy for more information about vSphere Auto Deploy.
6 Click Pre-check Remediation to check if the selected hosts are ready for remediation.
This check generates a list of tasks that will be performed on the host.
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