Compliance exclusions
Use the Compliance exclusions in SAM Core on Snow Atlas to create rules for applications that need to be excluded from compliance calculations for selected computers and users.
Software manufacturers can apply special licensing rules which cannot be detected automatically, such as license exceptions and exclusions. As an example, one rule could state that if Windows Server is installed on a host and the only enabled role of the host is Hyper-V, the host does not need to be counted for compliance reasons.
For this purpose, you can create rules in SAM Core that exclude certain applications from the compliance calculations for selected consumers. A consumer can be a computer or a user. Where the exclusion rules are applied, the license requirements are removed.
You create an exclusion rule based on the default metric of the application. This means that, if you want to create exclusion rules for both computers and users, you need to create the first exclusion rule, change the default metric of the application, and then create the second exclusion rule. For information, see Change default metrics.
If you create a compliance exclusion rule without selecting an applications or a consumer, the rule will be marked as incomplete and inactive. An inactive rule does not affect the compliance calculations.
Characteristics
The Compliance exclusions page has two tabs Rules and Results. For more information, see Compliance exclusions: Reference.
| Tab | Description |
|---|---|
| Rules | Shows the exclusion rules created in your environment. The rules can have the status Active, Inactive, Incomplete, or Calculating. |
| Results | Shows all the applications and consumers excluded from compliance calculations due to active compliance exclusion rules. |
On the Compliance exclusions page, by selecting View report, you find shortcuts to the reports Compliance exclusions for computers and Compliance exclusions for users. They show the applications that are excluded from compliance calculations, by which rules, and for which computers or users.
Your created compliance exclusion rules are reflected in the user interface of SAM Core. For information on where you can see the exclusions, see Compliance examples Compliance exclusions: Computers and Compliance exclusions: Users.