Assigning A Policy To Multiple Managed Systems Within A Group; Enforcing Policies For A Product On A Group; Enforcing Policies For A Product On A System - McAfee EPOLICY ORCHESTRATOR 4.0.2 Product Manual

Managing Products with Policies and Client Tasks
Working with policies
4 Locate the desired policy category, then click Edit Assignment.
5 If the policy is inherited, select Break inheritance and assign the policy and settings
below next to Inherited from.
6 Select the desired policy from the Assigned policy drop-down list.
NOTE: From this location, you can also edit the selected policy's settings, or create a new
policy.
7 Choose whether to lock policy inheritance.
8 Click Save.

Assigning a policy to multiple managed systems within a group

Use this task to assign a policy to multiple managed systems within a group. You can assign
policies before or after a product is deployed.
Task
For option definitions, click ? on the page displaying the options.
1 Go to Systems | System Tree | Systems, then select the desired group in the System
Tree. All the systems within this group (but not its subgroups) appear in the details pane.
2 Select the desired systems, then click Assign Policy. The Assign Policies page appears.
3 Select the Product, Category, and Policy from the drop-down lists, then click Save.

Enforcing policies for a product on a group

Use this task to enable or disable policy enforcement for a product on a System Tree group.
Policy enforcement is enabled by default, and is inherited in the System Tree.
Task
For option definitions, click ? on the page displaying the options.
1 Go to Systems | System Tree | Policies, then select the desired group in the System
Tree.
2 Select the desired Product, then click the blue text next to Enforcement Status. The
Enforcement page appears.
3 If you want to change the enforcement status you must first select Break inheritance
and assign the policy and settings below.
4 Next to Enforcement status, select Enforcing or Not enforcing accordingly.
5 Choose whether to lock policy inheritance. This prevents systems that inherit this policy
from having a different policy assigned in its place.
6 Click Save.

Enforcing policies for a product on a system

Use this task to enable or disable policy enforcement for a product on a system. Policy
enforcement is enabled by default, and is inherited in the System Tree.
126 McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0.2 Product Guide