Freelance Consultant

Tim.De.Keukelaere@IT-Essence.be

@Tim_DK

http://scug.be/tim/

http://be.linkedin.com/in/timdekeukelaere/

Plan & Configure

• Standards

Definition

• Create CI’s

and define

baselines

Assessment

• Deploy

baselines to

collections

Report /

Remediate

• Monitor

configuration

drift

• Remediate

non-

compliance

issues

Baseline

Group of CIs with presence

rules.

Configuration Item Configuration model defined for OS ,

Application (settings, rules,

applicability )

WMI

XML

Registry

IIS

MSI

Script

SQL

Software

Updates

File

Active

Directory

Agent discovers CIs,

validates data against

rules, remediates and

reports compliance

ConfigMgr

Agent

DeploymentMonitor/remediate

Collection

Log Description

CIAgent.log Records details about the process of remediation and compliance for

compliance settings, software updates, and

CITaskManager.log Records information about configuration item task scheduling.

DCMAgent.log Records high-level information about the evaluation, conflict reporting,

and remediation of configuration items and applications.

DCMReporting.log Records information about reporting policy platform results into state

messages for configuration items

DcmWmiProvider.log Records information about reading configuration item synclets from

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30710

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40913