Deploy Configuration Baseline

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Applies To: System Center 2012 - Orchestrator, System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator, System Center 2012 SP1 - Orchestrator

The objective of this activity is to assign a configuration baseline to a collection. It requires a pre-existing baseline as well as a collection to which the baseline will be assigned.

The activity publishes all of the data from the required and optional properties into published data. The following tables list the required and optional properties and published data for this activity.

Deploy Configuration Required Properties

Element

Description

Valid Values

Deployment Name

The desired name for the new deployment that will be shown in the Configuration Manager console

  

Baseline

Performs a WMI query against Configuration Manager and returns the baseline information

  

Baseline Value Type

The type of baseline value

ID or Name

Collection

Performs a WMI query against Configuration Manager and returns the collection information

  

Collection Value Type

The type of collection value

ID or Name

Remediate non-compliant rules when supported

Enables the remediation of non-compliant rules

True or False

Allow Remediation outside of Maintenance Windows

Enables the remediation of non-compliant rules outside of the maintence

True or False

Schedule Tab Properties

Element Description

Start

Defines a date and timestamp and how the time values are interpreted. Options are:

  • Client Local Time (default): the times specified represent the local time on the client

  • UTC: The times specified are UTC times.

Recurrence Pattern

Determines how often the configuration baseline should be deployed. Options are:

  • None (default): The configuration baseline is deployed only once, at the date and time specified in Start.

  • Weekly: The configuration baseline is deployed on the specified day of the week at the interval of the specified number of weeks.

  • Monthly: The configuration baseline is deployed at the interval of the specified number of months on:

    • Day: the specified day of the month.

    • The Last Day of the Month

    • The specified occurrence of the specified day of the week within the month.

  • Custom Interval: The configuration baseline is deployed at the interval of the specified number of minutes, hours, or days.

Alerts Tab Properties

Element Description

Generate Alerts

True or False (Default = False) When set to True, an alert definition will be created for the configuration baseline deployment according to the settings below. When set to False, alert settings in this group are ignored.

When Compliance % Below

When compliance with this configuration baseline is below this percentage, an alert will be generated in Configuration Manager. Valid values: 1 - 99

After Date and Time

Alerts will be generated only after this period of time has elapsed from the configuration baseline’s deployment.

Also Generate a System Center Operations Manager Alert

True or False (Default = False).

Note

Requires an Operations Manager connection with Configuration Manager

Deploy Configuration Optional Properties

There are no optional properties for this activity.

Deploy Configuration Published Data

Element

Description

Valid Values

Connection

Specifies the name of the connection to the Configuration Manager server

  

Collection ID

Provides the Collection ID value for the collection targeted for this activity (in case the collection name was specified for the input property).

  

See Also

Other Resources

Using Runbooks in System Center 2012 - Orchestrator