How to Scan and/or Repair against a custom group

Description

This article describes how to scan and/or repair based on a custom group that has been created in Security and Compliance Manager

Resolution

In Patch and Compliance Manager, there is the option to create a custom group.

To create a new group:

1. Open the Security and Compliance tool group on the Core Server or Remote Console
2. Go to the Patch and Compliance tool.
3. Expand the "Groups" node in the left hand pane.
4. Right-click on either "My Groups" or "Public Groups" and select "New".
   

Once you have created a new group, you can drag and drop definitions to the group as you desire. Then, in the Distribution and Patch Settings, you can set the job to scan for GROUP as opposed to TYPES, and point it to your custom group.

Once you have scanned against this, you can then REPAIR the entire custom group at once by right-clicking the group in Patch and Compliance Manager, and selecting repair.

To create a repair task open Security and Compliance Manager and follow the steps below.

1. Right click the custom group desired
2. Choose "Repair".
3. Set up the desired options (i.e. scheduled task, stage and repair, policy, etc...)
4. Click "OK" to create the task
5. Now drag the machines or query desired into the repair task created (note; the number of all devices will not reflect the results of the query until the task is started.)
6. You can also right click the scheduled task and choose properties to adjust the behavior and scheduling of the task.

For more information about Security and Compliance Manager, please refer to the Best Known Methods located here:Getting Started with Patch Manager in LDMS 9.6Best Known Methods Security and Patch Manager