Configuration compliance

Use configuration policies to enforce configuration compliance in your data center. Enterprise Manager provides many useful out-of-the-box policies. You can use those policies or define new policies for configuration compliance. For example, in Chapter 4, we saw how to define a configuration policy that checks for any Web Logic Server running on a default port (7001).

You can use the compliance score generated by Enterprise Manager to quantitatively define configuration compliance for a target. The following screenshot shows a configuration compliance score for a host target: