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Product Name

CIS-CAT Pro Assessor v4

Product Version

v4.0.20+

Date

11 Aug 2020

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How do I assess an ESXi target with CIS-CAT Pro Assessor v4?

Please check this documentation section for full details.
As a quick start;
1. Ensure that you do not have any un-commented lines in the assessor-CLI\config\sessions.properties file.
2. Run this command Assessor-CLI.bat -b benchmarks\CIS_VMware_ESXi_6.7_Benchmark_v1.0.1-xccdf.xml Note that the benchmark version name may change in more recent versions of CIS-CAT so please check that the file does exist in benchmarks\ directory.
3. When prompted enter the connection details for the target ESXi host in this format; user/password@host

Note

If you have errors please check the following;

In step 1 we link to the full documentation. Please ensure you have read that and validated that you have PowerShell, the VMware.VimAutomation.Core module and PowerCLI 6.5.1+ installed.
In step 2. b, make sure you are using the correct benchmark version from your benchmarks\ folder.
In step 2. c, ensure you have the correct remote user, password and IP information and that you can access the system from your CIS-CAT host server.
If those are all correct, please add the options -html --info to the command in step 2. b, then send the following information in a support ticket;
- the full command line output.
- the compressed log file from the logs\ directory.
- the resulting html report (if generated)

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Action	Name(s)	Date
Created by	Chris Boldiston	11 Aug 2020
Reviewed by	Jenna Urbanski Lampros Patsantaras (Unlicensed) Elizabeth Chaharyn Amanda McGown Andrew Preston Kathleen Patentreger (Unlicensed)	11 Aug 2020
Approved by	Stephanie Gass	12 Aug 2020
updated	Amanda McGown changed verbose logging to be info level logging	15 Sep 2022
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