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Remediate a Non-compliant Host
When you add a rule to the vSphere Auto Deploy active rule set or make changes to one or more
rules, hosts are not updated automatically. You must remediate the host associations to apply the
new rules to the host.
Prerequisites
n Prepare your system and install the Auto Deploy Server. For more information, see Prepare
Your System for vSphere Auto Deploy.
n Create a vSphere Auto Deploy rule. See Create a Deploy Rule.
n Activate a vSphere Auto Deploy rule. See Activate, Deactivate, and Reorder Deploy Rules.
n If the remediation of a host, results in a change in its location, the host must be placed in
maintenance mode.
Procedure
1 Navigate to Home > Auto Deploy.
By default, only the administrator role has privileges to use the vSphere Auto Deploy service.
2 On the Deployed Hosts tab, select a single or multiple ESXi hosts.
3 Click Remediate Host Associations.
If you remediate a host that has an edited image profile association, the host reverts to the
settings defined in the rule that it matches.
You can monitor the progress of the remediation process in the Recent Tasks pane.
What to do next
n View the host location, image profile, host profile, and added script bundles. See View Host
Associations.
n Change the image profile association of a host. See Edit the Image Profile Association of a
Host.
Add a Host to the vSphere Auto Deploy Inventory
You can view the hosts that do not match any vSphere Auto Deploy rule and manually add a host
to the vSphere Auto Deploy inventory.
To add a host to the current vSphere Auto Deploy inventory of deployed hosts, you can create
a new rule or edit an existing rule to include a host that is not deployed with vSphere Auto
Deploy and associate it with a specific host location, image profile, host profile, and script bundle.
Alternatively, you can manually add a host to the inventory by assigning it a host location, image
profile, host profile, and script bundle.
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