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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
Preserving custom remediation actions
Follow these steps to preserve manually edited remediation action scripts for checks in your custom checklists.

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      - Scanning for out-of-date checks
        You can make basic global scans or detailed targeted scans for out-of-date checks.
      - Synchronizing out-of-date checks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    You can configure checklists for the superseded and non-superseded UNIX content.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.

Preserving custom remediation actions

Follow these steps to preserve manually edited remediation action scripts for checks in your custom checklists.

About this task

Normally, synchronizing a custom check overwrites the existing remediation action, if there are any, with the latest from the external source. However, if you manually edited the remediation action script for checks in your custom checklists, you can preserve this custom action after synchronizing.

Note: Preserving a custom action in this way prohibits this check from receiving updates and bug fixes to the remediation action portion of the check. This option is only suggested for cases in which the user is sure that the action of the source check is either missing or incorrect, or if your security policy calls for remediating the check in a custom manner.

Procedure

From the Synchronize Custom Checks wizard, click the name of the custom check. The corresponding Fixlet opens.
Click Edit at the upper part of the Fixlet window. In the window that opens, click the Actions tab.
Select the wanted action in the first list. In most cases, there is only one.
Add // SCMSyncManager: NO_SYNC to the first line of the Action Script text box.