"Compliance Checker is a bit more robust than ConfigCheck as it allows for scanning multiple ESX hosts at once, scans against two different benchmarks and also allows you to print or save the results." - Eric Siebert
Compliance Checker is a free, downloadable tool that provides a real time compliance check for multiple VMware ESX host servers at a time. This product is a robust utility providing detailed compliance checks against both the VMware Hardening Guidelines and the CIS benchmarks for ESX. Unlike other free tools in the market, Compliance Checker is a fully functional product. For example, you can print the reports that Compliance Checker produces, and can run compliance checks across multiple ESX servers at once.
Compliance Checker downloads to a Windows desktop and the intuitive web-based interface requires little or no learning curve. Administrators simply point the product to the ESX hosts they want to test compliance against to perform the test immediately. The resultant compliance report provides a detailed rule by rule indication of pass or failure. Where compliance problems are found, users are directed to a detailed knowledge base for an explanation of the rule violated and advice on remediation. Compliance Checker should be downloaded by all VMware customers to assess and report on the security and compliance of deployed VMware servers against the industry standards - VMware Hardening Guidelines and the CIS Benchmarks for securing Virtual Machines and securing VMware ESX Server 3.x.
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