Retrieving baseline compliance data

After scanning your inventory objects against one or more baselines for missing patches or upgrades, you can use the Get-Compliance cmdlet to retrieve the compliance data. The syntax of the Get-Compliance cmdlet is as follows:

Get-Compliance [-Server <VIServer[]>] [-Entity] <InventoryItem> [-ComplianceStatus <ComplianceStatus>] [-Baseline <Baseline[]>] [-Detailed] [<CommonParameters>]

The -Entity parameter is required.

In the following example, we will retrieve the compliance status for the hosts in the cluster Cluster01 against the Critical Host Patches (Predefined) baseline:

PowerCLI C:\> $Baseline = Get-Baseline -Name 'Critical Host
    Patches (Predefined)'
PowerCLI C:\> Get-Compliance -Entity (Get-Cluster -Name
    'Cluster01') -Baseline $Baseline

The output of the preceding commands is as follows:

Entity        Baseline                           Status
------        --------                   ...