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title: "Host Security Profile Change Tracking"
description: "This report helps you keep an eye on configuration changes that were made in security profiles of your vSphere hosts across a time range."
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# Host Security Profile Change Tracking

This report helps you keep an eye on configuration changes that were made in security profiles of your vSphere hosts across a time range.

## Description

The **Host Security Profile Change Tracking** report analyzes host security profile configuration changes, provides detailed information on changes performed within the reporting period and helps track the most frequently changed properties.

## Parameters

Date/time Selection: defines the time period to analyze in the report.

Scope: defines a list of Groups or Objects that will be analyzed in the report. By default, the **VMware Security Profile Group** is selected. This group includes security profiles on vSphere hosts.  
 The **Add Group** option returns a Group and all objects that a group contains. The **Add Object** option returns only the selected object.

Aggregation Type: defines whether the data in the report will be aggregated to *Hourly* or *Daily* values.

Group changes by: defines how data will be grouped in the report (by *Property* or *Date* ).

Order objects by: defines how data will be sorted in the report (by *Name* or *Number of changes* ).

## Sample Usage

Track host security profile changes applied to a specific vSphere host during the previous week.

### Instructions

1. Open the Host Security Profile Change Tracking report. 
2. From the **From** list, select *Previous week > Monday* . From the **To** list, select *Previous week > Friday* . 
3. In the **Scope** section, select *VMware Security Profile Group* and click **Remove** . Then search for the necessary host to include in the report. Click **Add Group** . In the **Group Name** search box, enter the name of the host and click **Search** . In the list of search results, select the object that belongs to the *VMware vSphere Host* class, click **Add** and click **OK** . 
4. In the **Properties** field, select all properties. 
5. From the **Group changes by** list, select *Property* . 
6. From the **Group objects by** list, select *Name* . 
7. Click **Run** to view the report. 

### Report Output

In the **Summary** section, the report will display the **Top 5 most changing properties** chart with 5 most frequently changed properties.

The details section will provide the following information for each host included in the report scope:

<table style="width:100%;" class="Blue_Table">
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <th style="width:20%;">
      <p style="text-align:left;"> Column </p>
    </th>
    <th>
      <p style="text-align:left;"> Description </p>
    </th>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:20%;">
      <p> Property </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> Name of the changed property. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:20%;">
      <p> Last Value </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> Last specified property value. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="width:20%;">
      <p> Number of Changes </p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p> Number of times the property was changed. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

For each registered property change, the report will also provide the date of change, old and new property values.

You can click the **Total number of changes** link or the date of the change to drill down to the Microsoft **Custom Event** report:

- If you click the **Total number of changes** link, the **Custom Event** report will display all events for the object for the selected time interval. 
- If you click the date of change, the **Custom Event** report will display events for the day previous to the time stamp. 

The **Custom Event** report will provide information on the date and time of the change and the user who changed configuration. If you want to include more parameters in the report, click the **Show or Hide Parameter Area** button to open the report parameters and include more options in the **Report Fields** .