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Chapter 8. Remediation subsystem implementation 417
You can build similar pages for all of the compliance checks described in your
policy. In the next section we provide the detailed steps to build the remediation
workflows called when the user clicks the Fix Now button on the remediation user
interface.
8.4 Building the remediation workflows
The complexity of creating the actual remediation packages can vary greatly
depending on what you are trying to achieve and your Tivoli Configuration
Manager skills.
The remediation packages are called
remediation workflows because of the
Tivoli Provisioning Manager heritage. In the current version of the solution they
resemble the normal software package block files published on the Tivoli
Configuration Manager Web Gateway server and installed locally on the
noncompliant workstation using the standalone Tivoli Configuration Manager
commands. However, in this book we use the terms
remediation workflow and
remediation package interchangeably.
Software package block (SPB) is a native format of the Tivoli software distribution
products, used with Tivoli Configuration Manager as well as with the latest
version of Tivoli Provisioning Manager and Tivoli Provisioning Manager for
Software.
You can create and edit SPB packages using several different tools, like:
The Java-based
Software Package Editor included with Tivoli Configuration
Manager
Command-line tools
The Eclipse-based Software Package Editor included with Tivoli Provisioning
Manager for Software
In addition to the choices listed above you can use the sputil.sh utility provided
with the
IISSCN extension pack2 for Tivoli Configuration Manager, which is a
wrapper for Tivoli Configuration Manager commands.
As this book is not meant to be a comprehensive Tivoli Configuration Manager
manual, in the next paragraphs we describe how to use this utility to build the
remediation packages required for the policies we have defined in 6.2.4,
“Customization of compliance policies” on page 161.