Frequently Asked Questions - McAfee EPOLICY ORCHESTRATOR 4.0.2 Product Manual

Managing Products with Policies and Client Tasks

Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions
What is a policy?
A policy is a customized subset of product settings corresponding to a policy category. You can
create, modify, or delete as many named policies as needed for each policy category.
What are the McAfee Default and My Default policies?
Upon installation, each policy category contains at least two policies. These are named McAfee
Default and My Default. These are the only policies present for first-time installations. The
configurations for both, initially, are the same.
The McAfee Default named policies cannot be edited, renamed, or deleted. The My Default
policies can be edited, renamed, and deleted.
What happens to the child groups and systems of the group where I assigned a new
policy?
All child groups and systems that are set to inherit the specific policy category, inherit the policy
applied to a parent group.
How are the groups and systems where a policy is applied affected when the policy
is modified in the Policy Catalog?
All groups and systems where a policy is applied receive any modification made to the policy
at the next agent-server communication. The policy is then enforced at each policy enforcement
interval.
I assigned a new policy, but it's not being enforced on the managed systems. Why?
New policy assignments are not enforced until the next agent-server communication.
I pasted policy assignments from one group or system (source) to another (target),
but the policies assigned to the target location are not the same as the source
location. Why not?
When you copy and paste policy assignments, only true assignments are pasted. If the source
location was inheriting a policy that you selected to copy, then it is the inheritance characteristic
that was pasted to the target, so the target then inherits the policy (for that particular policy
category) from its parent, which may be a different policy than the one that was inherited onto
the source.
130 McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0.2 Product Guide