Error: "Failed to apply compliance settings" during vulnerability scan return code 451

Issue

"Failed to apply compliance settings" during vulnerability scan.

Steps to reproduce issue

1. Right click on the device to run compliance scan, it gives error "unable to get compliance settings from core"
2. Error in vulscan log:

Loaded 0 custom variables from C:\ProgramData\vulScan\CustomVariables.CoreServerHostName.ini

Last status: Could not find compliance settings

Error: No compliance behavior specified, unable to perform compliance scan

Failed to apply compliance settings

Last status: Failed

 

Resolution

In agent settings, create a new compliance setting, and then run a change settings task to deploy the settings to client machine.