Topic last updated -- November 2007
Use the Validation tab of the Configuration Manager 2007 setting properties dialog box to configure how the setting should be validated.
This tab contains the following elements:
- Data Type
- Specifies the data type of the setting, which can be one of the
following::
- String
- Date / Time
- Integer
- Floating Point
- Version
ImportantWhen specifying the Version data type, you must ensure that the version value on client computers that you are evaluating is in the form major version.minor version. If the value returned from the client computer is a single digit, then the setting will always report compliance. - String
- Details
- Specifies the list of validation criteria, which has the
following properties:
- Name
- Severity
- Validation
- Description
- Name
- New
- Opens the Configure Validation dialog box for you to name the validation, configure the criteria, and specify the severity level for non-compliance.
- Edit
- Opens the Configure Validation dialog box so you can view and edit the selected validation.
- Remove
- Removes the selected validation.
- Report a non-compliance event when this instance count fails
- If this box is checked, a noncompliance event of the specified severity will be recorded when the number of instances of an object or setting are not in the range specified.
- Instance count operator
- Use to validate the number of instances of an object or
setting. Specify one of the following operators:
- Equals
- Not Equals
- Greater Than
- Greater than or equal to
- Less Than
- Less than or equal to
- Between
- One Of (specify values separated by
spaces)
- None Of (specify values separated by
spaces)
- Equals
- Values
- Specifies the value to use with the selected operator. The default value is 0.
- AND
- Specifies an additional value to use with the selected operator. This option is only available if the operator is set to Between.
- Severity
- Specifies the severity level if this configuration setting
instance count fails. This severity level will be displayed in
conjunction with the non-compliance status and can report as a
Windows event, which will be logged to the Windows application
event log. Note that monitoring software such as Microsoft
Operations Management (MOM) can be used to monitor the severity
level for client computers out of compliance. For more information,
see About the
Non-Compliance Severity Level in Desired Configuration
Management.Available severity levels:
- Information - no Windows event
messages Client computers that fail this instance count will
not raise Windows events to record this event but will still report
a non-compliance status in Configuration Manager 2007.
- Information Computers that fail this
instance count rule will raise the Windows event type of
Informational. In addition, these computers will record this
severity status in conjunction with their noncompliance status in
Configuration Manager 2007.
- Warning Computers that fail this
instance count will raise the Windows event type of Warning.
In addition, these computers will record this severity status in
conjunction with their noncompliance status in Configuration
Manager 2007.
- Error Computers that fail this
instance count will raise the Windows event type of Error.
In addition, these computers will record this severity status in
conjunction with their noncompliance status in Configuration
Manager 2007.
- Information - no Windows event
messages Client computers that fail this instance count will
not raise Windows events to record this event but will still report
a non-compliance status in Configuration Manager 2007.
- OK
- Saves the changes and exits the dialog box.
- Cancel
- Exits the dialog box without saving any changes.
- Help
- Opens the help topic for this tab of the dialog box.