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Configuration Management (SCM)
BigFix Compliance Configuration Management (SCM) includes configurable content that is checks and checklists, which assess and manages the devices to ensure compliance standards are met.
Security Configuration Management for WebUI User Guide
Security Configuration Management (SCM) App in WebUI continuously assess and manages the device for security misconfiguration and deviation, which enables operator to deploy remediation action to ensure the device meets compliance standards.
SCM App in WebUI: Overview
The SCM App landing page lists all the custom and external checklists that are used to manage devices.
Custom checklist
A custom checklist is a modified version or a copy of an external checklist. These checklists are created by using one or more external checklists. With custom checklists, Master Operators (MO) can exclude certain checks from an external checklist and deploy those checklists to any device.
Synchronizing a custom checklists
Use Synchronize custom checklist to update custom checklists in your deployment whose sources (external checklists) have been updated.

Configuration Management (SCM)
BigFix Compliance Configuration Management (SCM) includes configurable content that is checks and checklists, which assess and manages the devices to ensure compliance standards are met.
- Configuration Management for Console User Guide
  Configuration management (SCM) is used to manage security configuration of devices using checklists which includes creating custom checklists, customize individual checks, synchronizing, deploying checklists to devices.
- Security Configuration Management for WebUI User Guide
  Security Configuration Management (SCM) App in WebUI continuously assess and manages the device for security misconfiguration and deviation, which enables operator to deploy remediation action to ensure the device meets compliance standards.
  - Welcome to the SCM App in WebUI
    Security Configuration Management (SCM) is a collection of checks and checklists that organizations can use to configure devices and ensure that the devices meet compliance standards.
  - What's new in SCM App in WebUI
    This topic provides information about the new features and updates in SCM App in WebUI.
  - System requirements
    SCM App in WebUI requires certain system requirements to work in your environment, this topic provides the necessary information to use SCM App.
  - Supported benchmarks
  - SCM App in WebUI: Overview
    The SCM App landing page lists all the custom and external checklists that are used to manage devices.
    - Custom checklist
      A custom checklist is a modified version or a copy of an external checklist. These checklists are created by using one or more external checklists. With custom checklists, Master Operators (MO) can exclude certain checks from an external checklist and deploy those checklists to any device.
      - Viewing a custom checklist
        Understand how to view a custom checklist and its overview.
      - Creating a custom checklist
        This task helps you in creating a custom checklist from one or more external checklist.
      - Deploying a custom checklist
        Use this task to deploy a custom checklist to one or more targets.
      - Synchronizing a custom checklists
        Use Synchronize custom checklist to update custom checklists in your deployment whose sources (external checklists) have been updated.
      - Modifying check parameters
        Custom checklist contains multiple checks. You can only modify the copies of checks located in custom checklist. For example, in a Account lockout threshold check, you can set the maximum number of failed login attempts before the account is locked to any desired value.
    - Custom check
      A custom checklist includes many checks which enables the security teams to preserve the compliance standards of an organisation. Similarly, checks within a checklist perform various type of actions and ensures the pre-defined parameters of the checks are met.
    - External checklist
      SCM App in WebUI uses various benchmark checklists to ensure that the device meet the compliance standards. You can use these external checklists to manage devices or create custom checklist as per the requirement. For more information about external checklist, see Supported Benchmarks.
    - Exporting report
      Use export feature to save report for a particular custom or external checklist.
    - Inline reports
      Inline reports provide the status of selected custom or external checklist in the form of chart and graphs which assess the available checks in the selected checklist.

Synchronizing a custom checklists

Use Synchronize custom checklist to update custom checklists in your deployment whose sources (external checklists) have been updated.

About this task

An out of sync icon is displayed on the custom checklist tile and those checklists must be synchronized with their sources (external checklists).

Procedure

Perform the following steps to synchronize the custom checklist:

Navigate to the SCM App landing page and click Sync.
Click View and sync on any checklist to sync.

The Synchronize custom checklist page gives an overview of the checklists that are to be synchronized.
Select the required Check or use the select all option to select all available checks and click Sync Selected.

Important: You can select up to 100 checks at a time to synchronize. This limitation is to improve the performance of the operation.
If a selected check has no associated parameters, the synchronisation starts. If the checks have associated parameters, you are prompted with the following dialog box:
- Click Sync.
  During synchronization, special indicators shows the status such as in progress or error of each individual check.

Results

When synchronized, the status is displayed next to each individual checks. The results are as follows:

: Successfully updated the check to the custom site.
: Failed to updated the check to the custom site.
Note: In some cases, successfully synchronized check will be removed from the data grid.