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Running Snapshot, Audit, and Compliance Jobs on virtual infrastructure

You can run Snapshot, Audit, and Compliance Jobs on a variety of virtual infrastructure server nodes (including clusters, hosts, AIX LPARS, VIO Servers, Solaris non-global zones, and so on) to verify that virtual inventory configurations meet corporate standards.

For example, you could run a Snapshot Job on a vCenter server's Inventory node to check to see if any virtual machines have been added to, or removed from, a given data center. To see what virtual environments are supported, see Overview-of-virtualization-support.

Warning

Note

Snapshot Jobs and Audit Jobs are not supported at the root level, for Citrix XenServer.

You can then remediate the virtual assets that fail audit or are found to be non-compliant, using a remediation job.
For example, suppose you run a Compliance Job and discover that a virtual machine's memory settings are non-compliant. You can run a Deploy Job to deploy a BLPackage with the proper configuration settings that remediates the problem on the virtual machine.
For additional information about remediating problem systems, see Creating-a-remediation-package.

Example procedure for virtual environments

You can use the general principles from the following example to perform snapshot and audit operations on nodes in a virtual environment.

  1. Follow the procedures described in Creating-Snapshot-Jobs to define and run the Snapshot Job.
  2. In addition to whatever other Snapshot Job options you choose, make sure to select Select Snapshot Job Type > Snapshot server objects on the Snapshot Job - General panel.
  3. When the Snapshot Job run completes, browse to the Snapshot Results node in the Servers View node. Expand the Snapshot run under this view to browse results of the snapshot parts.
  4. Right-click the results node for the Snapshot Job run, and select Audit. The New Audit Job wizard opens.
  5. Fill out the wizard panels as described in Creating-Audit-Jobs.
  6. In addition to whatever other Audit Job options you choose, make sure to choose the Select server objects option for Select Audit Job Type on the General panel.
  7. When the Audit Job run completes, browse to the Audit Results node in the Servers folder.
    For information about how to view audit results, see Viewing-audit-results-by-object or Viewing-audit-results-by-server.

 

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BMC Server Automation 8.3