Beginner’s guide to Comply
Welcome to the Beginner’s guide to Comply! As a new user, you'll need to perform some initial installation and configuration tasks, and then we'll show you how to use the core features of Comply.
You're just a few steps away from enforcing compliant configurations across your infrastructure. Before you begin, we recommend familiarizing yourself with our terminology and Comply overview.
Step 1: Install and configure Comply
Use the main documentation to install and configure Comply. If you've already completed these steps, proceed to step 2.
- Install Puppet Application Manager (PAM)
- Set up Comply
Step 2: Set desired compliance
Desired compliance is the benchmark and profile that you to assign to a particular node. It is what is scanned on that node by default. Most of the time, you only need to set this once for your nodes.
Based on fact information from PE, Comply can automatically assign an appropriate benchmark for each operating system, along with a Level 1 profile, to nodes that have not been set. This is the quickest way to get up and running with desired compliance. To manually choose your own benchmark and profiles, see Manually set desired compliance.
Step 3: Run a CIS scan
You are now ready to run a scan.