How it works...
Base-lining is a method of creating a reference container for a set of patches or upgrades that you would like to have installed on a host, virtual machines, or virtual appliances. You can choose to leverage the predefined baselines or custom-created baselines. For instance, you may choose to have very aggressive security compliance for DMZ-based servers, whereas internal test or development servers may have a relaxed compliance. For such use cases, you may choose to have two different custom baselines with the relevant criterion. In the preceding recipe, we have targeted critical—security patches to be dynamically associated with a baseline. This would ensure that any new patches meeting the criterion are added to the baseline. ...
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