Scheduling Host Profile compliance checks

You can also create a scheduled task to periodically run a Host Profile compliance check on the hosts or the cluster attached to a Host Profile.

Getting ready

Before you could run or schedule profile compliance on an ESXi host, it should be attached to a Host Profile. Read the instructions in the recipe Attaching/Detaching ESXi hosts to/from Host Profile for achieving the same.

How to do it...

The following procedure will guide you through the steps involved in scheduling profile compliance checks:

1. Log on to the vSphere Web Client and use the key combination Ctrl + Alt + 1 to navigate to the inventory home:

2. At the inventory home, click on Host Profiles to view all the profiles already created:

3. Double-click on the Host Profile you would like to create a scheduled task for:

4. Navigate to the Monitor | Scheduled Tasks tab and click on Schedule a New Task | Check Host Profile Compliance:

5. On the Check Host Profile Compliance (scheduled) window, click on Scheduling...