To enforce and report on the compliance of your vSphere objects, you activate the compliance pack that contains the policies for regulatory standards. Then, you select the policy to activate the appropriate regulatory alerts for your virtual machines.

Prerequisites

Before you can enable some of the regulatory benchmarks, you may need to install the integration by following the steps in Installing and Configuring Integrations in VMware Aria Operations after downloading the .PAK file from Marketplace.

Procedure

  1. From the left menu, click Operations > Compliance to access the compliance page.
    The compliance packs for the regulatory standards are displayed under the Regulatory Benchmark section.
  2. To activate any regulatory benchmark, click Activate From Repository on the required compliance pack.
    You are redirected to the Management Pack Details page.
  3. Click Activate to complete the installation.
  4. To activate the compliance pack policies, navigate to the Compliance homepage and click Enable on the installed compliance pack.
    The Enable Policies window opens.
  5. Select the policies that you want to activate and click Enable to complete the process.

Results

VMware Aria Operations starts to assess the objects based on the regulatory benchmark that you installed.