The General panel lets you provide identifying information for a component template, and it lets you choose the types of operations that can be based on this component template, such as browsing, snapshots, audits, and compliance.
Field definitions
| An identifying name for the component template. |
| (Optional) Descriptive text for the component template. |
| The component template folder where you want to store this component template. Click Browse , and then select a group in the Select Folder dialog box and click OK. If necessary, you can create a new folder during this process by clicking Create New Folder . |
| The operations that can be performed using any component discovered based on this component template. Any of the following: - Discover — Run Component Discovery Jobs on servers to identify components matching this component template signature.
- Browse — Browse components that have been discovered using this component template.
- Snapshot — Run Snapshot Jobs on any components that have been discovered using this component template.
- Audit — Run Audit Jobs on any components that have been discovered using this component template. You can also use this component as part of the master for any Audit Job.
- Deploy — Deploy packages to components that have been discovered using this component template. If you do not check this option, you cannot use Deploy Jobs to target components.
- Compliance — Run Compliance Jobs on components that have been discovered using this component template. A Compliance Job determines whether a component satisfies the compliance rules defined for the component template. If you check the Compliance option, you can also check any of the following:
- Allow Remediation — Lets you deploy a BLPackage to correct a discrepancy when a compliance rule is not satisfied.
- Allow Auto-remediation — Lets you choose to deploy a BLPackage automatically to correct a discrepancy when a compliance rule is not satisfied. Selecting this option does not mean a Compliance Job automatically remediates. Instead, it allows you to choose auto-remediation when you define compliance rules. When you select Allow Auto-remediation, the Allow Remediation option is checked automatically.
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