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Profiles allow your organization to store and manage rule settings in reusable templates (e.g. rule settings for a specific environment type, security level, or application). You can apply a profile to one or more Cloud Accounts and also apply multiple profiles to an account to achieve the desired outcome for your rule settings.
Content
Refer to Cloud Conformity’s
Public API for API support on Profiles.
User Access
When you signup for Cloud Conformity, the default profile is created along with your organisation. This profile consists of all rules in their default settings which is updated with new rules and updates regularly. Every profile that you create is a default profile until configured manually.
Downloading the default profile
Click on the Download button to keep this profile as a reference for all default rule settings. Although this profile consists of all the rules, not all of them are configured by default. You will need to configure the un-configured rules before uploading the default profile. Hence we recommend you copy rule settings from the default profile and apply to new or existing profiles.
Viewing the default profile rule settings
Since the Cloud Conformity default profile is read-only, you can only view and not configure any rule settings in this profile. However, you can copy individual rule settings in their default state and paste them into a profile if required.
- Click on View rule settings
- Pick a rule and click on View. The View rule settings pop-up window opens with a JSON format of the selected rule setting.
- Click on the Copy to clipboard button and paste it to another profile as required.
Custom Profile
A user created Profile is referred to as a custom profile within Conformity.
Create a Profile
- Click on Profiles from the top navigation panel.
- Under Custom profiles, click on + Create Profile.
- Select the method of profile creation.
- Create new
- Enter New Profile name and New Profile description.
- Select an account from the Use existing configurations from an account drop-down to copy profile configurations already applied to existing accounts.
- Create new using downloaded Profile
- Click Browse to select a downloaded profile or downloaded account rule settings.
- Enter New Profile name, New Profile description. The Profile rule configurations automatically get copied over from the selected profile.
- Use unique profile names for better identification.
- Add instructions for your team regarding profile usage and the accounts to apply to.
Profile management
Once you have created a profile, you can access it from the left-hand navigation. From the Manage Profiles page, you can:
Deleting a profile cannot be undone. You can download the profile and save it as a backup copy before deleting.
Profile rule configurations
- Click on Update rule settings.
- Filter rules as per your requirements, for example you can filter by Services, Rule ID, Categories, Active rules, Non-active rules, new or updated rules.
- You can configure every rule within a profile as per your requirements.
Resetting Profile rules
- Reset: returns a selected rule within a profile to its default settings.
- Reset all to default: returns all profile rules to their default settings.
Disabled rules are considered as configured rules i.e. you are configuring to disable the rule. Resetting all rules to default will reset your disabled rules as well.
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Un-configured rule. Click on Configure to enable and apply rule settings. |
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Rule with default settings. Click on Configure to apply rule settings. |
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Manually configured rule. Click on Configure to update settings or Reset to default. |
Download Profile
You can download profile settings in JSON format and used the downloaded profile while creating a new profile or managing an existing profile.
Upload Profile
You can upload a downloaded JSON file to replace the selected profile’s configurations i.e. profile name, description, and rule settings.
- Click on Upload.
- Browse to select the downloaded profile or downloaded account’s rule settings.
- Select one of the replacement options:
- Replace settings only
- Replace settings, name and description.
- Click Next.
- Review the warning before clicking on Proceed.
Apply Profile to Account
You can apply a profile to desired account(s) either from the Profile or from Rule Settings within an account.
- Click on Apply to
- Select account(s) from the list or search for it using name, environment, or account tags.
- Select the desired overwrite option: Replace, Merge, use profile, and Merge, use account.
- Enter Notes and click on Next.
- Review the summary
- You can Download the account’s existing rule settings as a backup
- Apply profile, or
- Go Back to the overwrite options.
Replace
This overwrite option allows you to overwrite all existing account settings and replace them with the profile’s settings being applied.
Merge, use profile
This overwrite options allows you to use the new profile settings along with the existing account settings. If there are any conflicts during the merge, the profile settings are applied by default.
Merge, use account
This overwrite options allows you to use the new profile settings with the existing account settings. If there are any conflicts during the merge, the account settings are applied by default.
Bulk disable rules using profiles
You can disable multiple rules in your account at once using the profile feature.
- Download ‘Disable All Rules’ profile by clicking on the link: disable-all-rules-20190905-mina.json.
- Use the downloaded profile to either:
- Create a new profile using a downloaded Profile
or
- Modify an existing profile by using the Upload Profile feature
- Apply the profile to the relevant account.
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