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Reference manual 8.1
    • Introduction
      • What is Rudder?
        • Made for production environments
        • Different roles for a better accessibility
        • Universality
      • Key Features
        • OS independent target configuration state definition
        • Centralize and aggregate real configuration states
        • Automatic inventory
        • REST API
        • Audit trace and Change Requests
        • Centralized authentication (LDAP, Active Directory, OpenID Connect)
        • Extensibility
      • Use cases
        • Dynamic groups by operating system
        • Library of preventive policies
        • Standardizing configurations
        • Using Rudder as an Audit tool
        • Using Audit mode to validate a policy before applying it
      • Architecture
        • Functional architecture of Rudder
        • Network architecture in client/server mode
        • Agents
      • Technical stack
        • Principles
        • Server
        • Agent
    • Installation
      • Rudder components
      • Rudder versions
      • Compatible OS
        • Fully supported Operating Systems
        • Partially supported Operating Systems
      • Requirements
        • Networking
        • JVM requirements
        • Cloud compatibility
        • Hardware specifications for Rudder Agent
        • Hardware specifications and sizing for Rudder Root Server
      • Quick installation
      • Install server
        • on Debian/Ubuntu
        • on RHEL/CentOS
        • on Amazon Linux
        • on SLES
        • with a separate DB
      • Install agent
        • on Debian/Ubuntu
        • on RHEL/CentOS/Amazon Linux
        • on SLES
        • on Windows
        • on AIX
      • Install relay
        • on Debian/Ubuntu
        • on RHEL/CentOS
        • on SLES
      • Upgrade Rudder
        • Upgrade notes
        • on Debian/Ubuntu
        • on RHEL/CentOS/Amazon Linux
        • on SLES
        • on Windows
        • upgrade PostgreSQL
      • Migrate to external DB
      • Containers - Docker
      • Development versions
    • Usage
      • Web interface usage
        • Authentication
        • Presentation of Rudder Web Interface
        • Quick search anything
      • Node management
        • Node inventory
        • Accept new nodes
        • Search nodes
        • Group of Nodes
      • Advanced node management
        • Create node API
        • Override node FQDN
        • Reinitialize policies for a Node
        • Completely reinitialize a Node
        • Change the agent run schedule
        • Installation of the Rudder Agent
        • Rudder Agent interactive
        • Processing new inventories on the server
        • Agent execution frequency on nodes
        • Extend node inventory
        • Node Lifecycle
        • Disable the service listening for remote run on nodes
        • Single directive execution
      • Configuration concepts
        • Techniques
        • Directives
        • Rules
        • Variables and Values
        • Compliance and Drift Assessment
        • Rudder score
        • Policy Mode (Audit/Enforce)
        • Reporting Mode (non-compliant only)
      • Technique editor
        • Introduction
        • Technique Editor
        • Create your first Technique
      • Variables
        • Generalities
        • Variables definition purpose: configuration data or source of environment knowledge?
        • Using variables
        • Auto-conditions
      • Advanced configuration management
        • Policy generation
        • Server Event Hooks
        • New directives default naming scheme
        • Policies ordering
        • Share files between nodes
        • Update technique resources from command line
        • Import / Export archive of rules, directives, techniques, groups and related dependencies
      • REST API
    • Administration
      • Server administration
        • Configuration repository
        • Archives
        • Event Logs
        • Health Check
        • Policy Server
        • Basic administration of Rudder services
        • Communication resilience in case of network or Rudder server outage
        • rudder-cf-serverd logging
        • Optional usage survey and data collection
      • Agent administration
        • Package manager data caching
      • User management
        • Configuration files related to user authentication and authorizations
        • Authentication providers configuration
        • User and role configuration file
      • Maintenance procedures
        • Database maintenance
        • Server backup and migration
        • Relay backup and migration
        • Agent backup and migration
        • Password management
      • Performance tuning
        • Disk usage
        • Reports retention
        • Apache web server
        • Jetty
        • Java "Out Of Memory Error"
        • Configure RAM allocated to Jetty
        • Configure Jetty for very small instances
        • Make better use of resources
        • LDAP connection pool configuration
        • Configure PostgreSQL server
        • Agent
      • Monitoring
        • Monitoring Rudder itself
        • Monitoring your configuration management
      • Server installation options
        • Installation modifiers with environment variables
      • Integration
        • Use Rudder inventory in other tools
        • Existing third party integration
        • Integrate Rudder thanks to its APIs
      • Uninstall
        • Uninstall Rudder agent on a node
        • Uninstalling Rudder relay servers
        • Uninstalling Rudder root server
      • Rudder security & hardening
        • Server
        • Agent
        • Network
      • Webapp administration
        • Configuration
        • Data files
        • HTTP
        • Logging
        • Performance
        • Monitoring
      • Relayd administration
        • Configuration
        • Data files
        • API
        • Logging
        • Monitoring
        • Security
        • Synchronization via ssh
      • Slapd administration
        • Configuration
        • Data files
        • Backup
        • Logging
        • Security
      • Change server ports
        • Change listening ports on the root server
        • Set connection port on the agents (for nodes, relays, and root server)
      • Troubleshooting
        • Inventory problem
        • Compliance problem
        • Agent problems
    • Plugins
      • Manage plugins
        • Install plugins with a subscription
        • Manual plugins installation
        • More about plugins
      • API authorizations
        • User personal API Token
        • API ACLs
      • Authentication backends
        • Configuring log level
        • Centralized user authorization management with OIDC
        • Configure login form rendering
        • Configure enabled backends
        • Root access when external authentication is not working
        • LDAP / AD backend configuration
        • OAUTHv2 / OpenID Connect (OIDC)
      • Branding
      • Centreon
        • Installation
        • Usage
      • Change validation
        • What is a Change request ?
        • Change request management page
        • How to create a Change request ?
        • How to validate a Change request ?
        • Change request and conflicts
        • Notifications
        • Validated User
      • Consul
        • Installation
        • Usage
      • CVE
        • CVE plugin overview
        • Installation, requirements and settings
        • Vulnerability assessment for Linux packages
        • Interactive check and CVE database update
      • Node properties data sources
        • Data source configuration screen
        • First set: data source description
        • Second set: query configuration
        • Third set: query triggers
        • Field description
        • Deleting a data source
      • DSC
      • DSC
      • GLPI
        • Installation
        • Usage
      • Multi-tenants
        • How to use
      • Node external reports
        • Documents naming convention
        • Plugin configuration
        • Configuration file location
        • Configuration file format
      • Notification
        • Installation
        • Usage
        • Authors
        • Contributing
      • OpenSCAP
        • Installation
        • Usage
        • Rudder Webapp integration
      • Reporting
        • Usage
      • Scale out relay servers
      • Secret Management
        • How to use
      • System updates
        • Specific rights and roles
        • List available updates
        • Apply updates
      • User management
        • Unitary permission: a right
        • Permissions
        • Roles
        • User credentials
        • User management plugin interface
      • Vault
        • Installation
        • Usage
      • Zabbix
        • Installation
        • Usage
    • Reference
      • Contribute
        • Licenses
        • Bugs prioritization
      • Rudder architecture
        • Inventory workflow, from nodes to Root server
        • Rudder Server data workflow
        • Configuration files for Rudder Server
        • Rudder agent workflow
        • Configuration files for a Node
        • Packages organization
      • Build packages from source
        • Building the Rudder agent
      • Man pages
        • rudder(8)
        • rudder-relayd(1)
      • Variables
        • Technical implementation of Node properties
      • Plugin format
        • File description
      • Security considerations
        • Data confidentiality
        • Node-Server communication security
      • Generic methods
        • Audit
        • Command
        • Condition
        • Directory
        • Dsc
        • Environment
        • File
        • Group
        • Http
        • Kernel
        • Monitoring
        • Package
        • Permissions
        • Powershell
        • Registry
        • Report
        • Rudder
        • Schedule
        • Service
        • Sharedfile
        • Sysctl
        • User
        • Variable
        • Windows
      • Generic methods guidelines
        • Rudder generic methods project
      • Reports reference
        • Concepts
      • Technique reference
        • Files organisation
        • General Rules
        • Details of the metadata.xml file
        • Examples
        • Separated policy generation
        • Known limitations
        • Syntax of the Techniques
        • Best Practices for Techniques
        • Technique upgrade
      • Jetty server configuration
        • Jetty start and JVM parameters
        • Jetty modules configurations architecture
        • Jetty directories
        • Other Jetty places
        • Rudder default start.ini
      • Logs reference
        • Server side
        • Linux agents
        • Windows agents
      • Frequently Asked Questions
        • General
        • Security
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  • DSC
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DSC

This plugin allows you to manage Windows nodes using the Rudder Windows Agent (DSC). For guidance after the initial installation of the plugin, please refer to the documentation for Windows agent installation.

DSC

This plugin allows you to manage Windows nodes using the Rudder Windows Agent (DSC). For guidance after the initial installation of the plugin, please refer to the documentation for Windows agent installation.


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