How to Build Manifests for Managed Hosts (Web Browser)

1. If you are not already in the appropriate host group, see How to Access the Hosts Section and Appropriate Administrative Domain and Host Group (Web Browser).

2. Select the managed hosts and host groups for which you want to build manifests.

   For example, select host1 and host2 by clicking the checkbox next to host1 and host2.

3. From the Host Actions menu, choose Build Manifests.

4. Supply a meaningful job name.

   For example, the job name might be Build manifests for host1 and host2.

5. Determine when you want to run the job, either now or at another time.

   • To initiate the job immediately, click the Start Now radio button.

   • Run the job at a later time by specifying the start date and start time.

     • Start date. Click the date or specify the date in the mm/dd/yyyy format.

       mm and dd are two-digit forms for the month and day. yyyy is the four-digit form for the year.

     • Start time. Choose the start time from the hour and minute pull-down menus.

6. Specify the path name of the audit rules file to use.

   Click Browse to open a file chooser to help in the search for the audit rules file in the Change Manager repository.

   To add an audit rules file to the Change Manager repository, see How to Create an Audit Rules File (Web Browser) and How to Import an Audit Rules File to the Change Manager Repository (Web Browser). See the description of the Audit Rules File Format.

   For example, the audit rules file is /files/web-server/usr-only.brul.

7. Specify the path name of the folder in which to store the manifest.

   For example, store the resulting manifests in the /files/web-server folder.

8. Supply the prefix for the manifest file name.

   The prefix helps identify the manifest.

   For example, the prefix name might be usr-only to indicate the rules file used to generate the manifests. The resulting manifest file name for host1 might look like usr-onlyhost1.brul.

9. Click Submit to build the manifests, or click Cancel to return to the previous page.

   This operation takes some time to complete.

10. When the operation completes, view the manifests.

    1. Click the Files tab at the top of the web page to go to the Files section.

    2. Drill down to the folder where you stored the manifests.

    3. Click the manifest name to go to its property page.

       You can view one manifest at a time.

       If the manifest is very large, use the Prev and Next buttons to navigate between pages.

    4. To return to the folder that holds the manifests, click Back.

       Repeat Steps 10c and 10d to view more manifests.

For example, Suzi can schedule a job to build manifests for the /hosts/web-server/apache/host1 and /hosts/web-server/apache/host2 managed hosts. The manifests will be stored in the /files/web-server folder. Each file name will use usr-only as the prefix. The audit rules file to be used is called /files/web-server/usr-only.brul. The operation is scheduled to start on June 27th at 3:00 a.m.