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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.
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.
Using checks and checklists
Using the Synchronize Custom Checks wizard

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.
  - Setting up Configuration Management
    Follow these steps to set up your Configuration Management deployment.
  - Using checks and checklists
    - Check Fixlets
    - Modifying check parameters
    - Activating Measured Value Analyses
      Click the Analyses subnode within a checklist to find measured value analyses.
    - Creating and Managing Custom Checklists
    - Using the Synchronize Custom Checks wizard
      - Scanning for out-of-date checks
        You can make basic global scans or detailed targeted scans for out-of-date checks.
      - Synchronizing out-of-date checks
      - Preserving custom remediation actions
        Follow these steps to preserve manually edited remediation action scripts for checks in your custom checklists.
    - Taking a remediation action
  - Configuring Windows checklists
  - Configuring UNIX checklists
    You can configure checklists for the superseded and non-superseded UNIX content.
  - Importing SCAP content
  - Configuration Management Reporting
    In previous releases, the primary reporting tools for the Configuration Management solution included the Configuration Management dashboard, Exception Management dashboard, and Web Reports.
  - Frequently asked questions
- 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.

Using the Synchronize Custom Checks wizard

Use the SCM Synchronize Custom Checks wizard to update any custom checks in your deployment whose external sources have since been updated by HCL. You can use any additional functionality or bug fixes that may have been provided by HCL (in the form of external site updates) since the custom copies were made.

To synchronize a custom checklist, you must have the latest version of the Create Custom Checklist wizard (SCM Reporting version 36 or later). The latest version of the wizard adds required metadata to the copied checks that allows the sync wizard to determine whether the current external source has been modified since the copy was made.

First time SCM user
If your Endpoint Manager deployment does not have any custom checklists that were created prior to the release of the sync wizard, any custom checklists you create from now on will be compatible with the Synchronize Custom Checks wizard.
Existing SCM user and you used the previous version of the Create Custom Checklist wizard
If you already have one or more custom checklists created with an older version of the Create Custom Checklist wizard, you will have to first recreate these and any other custom checklists that you wish to have synchronizing abilities using the latest version of the Create Custom Checklist wizard.

Note: SCM user should have Can Submit Queries permission and Can use REST API privilege set to Yes to trigger the sync wizard operation.