Software compliance status criteria

Software compliance status is determined by the following criteria:

• Software Compliance—Single Server: If at least one item in a software policy does not match what is discovered (or does not exist) on the server the policy is attached to, the server’s software compliance status is Non-Compliant . The details pane of a Device explorer shows the Software category as Non-Compliant and the summary column indicates how many rules (software policy items) are Non-Compliant, out of the total number of rules.
  
  For example, if a software policy contains 10 items and 6 of the items are Non-Compliant, the software policy’s status is listed as Non-Compliant and the summary description reads: “6 of 10 Rules Out of Compliance.”
  
  If more than one software policy targets a single server and if at least one of those policies is Non-Compliant, the aggregate compliance status for Software is also displayed as Non-Compliant. You can expand the Software category of the details pane to see which of the policies are not in compliance, including a breakdown of how many rules in each policy are either in or out of compliance.
• Software Compliance—Device Groups: A software policy attached to a group of servers is considered Compliant if more than 5% of the servers in the group attached to the policy have a status of Non-Compliant. If this is the case, the aggregate compliance for software policy displays as Non-Compliant. Another way to understand Non-Compliant for a device group is to remember that when less than 95% of the servers are Compliant, a status of Non-Compliant will display.
  
  However, if more than 2%, but less than or equal to 5%, of all servers in a group have the status of Non-Compliant for that category, the status is Partial-Compliant . Another way to understand Partial-Compliant for a device group is to remember that when less than 98% but at least 95% of the servers are Compliant, a status of Partial-Compliant will display.
  
  If less than 2% of all servers in a group have a Software Policy status of Non-Compliant for that category, the overall status is Compliant. Another way to understand Compliant is to remember that at least 98% of the servers are Compliant.
  
  The details pane for a group of servers in the Compliance view shows whether the software policies are compliant or not. This information does not expand to show a breakdown of individual servers and policies.
  
  You can modify the thresholds used to determine compliance for groups of servers.