Organizing Systems For Management - McAfee EPOLICY ORCHESTRATOR 4.0.2 Product Manual

Organizing Systems for Management

ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0.2 provides some new features and improvements to existing features
to organize and manage your systems.
• The Directory has been replaced by the System Tree — The System Tree allows for easy
management of policies and tasks, and organization of systems and groups.
• Tags — This new feature allows you to create labels that can be applied to systems manually
or automatically, based on criteria assigned to the tag. You can sort systems into groups
based on tags (like IP address sorting), or use tags for criteria in queries.
• NT Domain and Active Directory synchronization — This feature now allows for:
• True synchronization of the Active Directory structure.
• Control of potential duplicate system entries in the System Tree.
• Control of systems in the System Tree when they are deleted from the the domain or
container.
• Sorting systems into groups automatically — You can now use tags as sorting criteria in
addition to the previous functionalities of IP address sorting. Each type of sorting criteria
can be used alone or in combination.
The System Tree contains all of the systems managed by ePolicy Orchestrator; it is the the
primary interface for managing policies and tasks on these systems. You can organize systems
into logical groups (for example, functional department or geographic location) and sort them
by IP address or tags. You can manage policies (product configuration settings) and schedule
tasks (for example, updating virus definition files) for systems at any level of the System Tree.
Before configuring the software to deploy or manage the security software in your environment,
you must plan how to best organize systems for management and select the methods to bring
in and keep systems in the System Tree.
TIP: Many factors can influence how you should create and organize your System Tree. McAfee
recommends taking time to review this entire guide before you begin creating your System
Tree.
Are you setting up the System Tree for the first time?
When setting up the System Tree for the first time:
1 Reviewing the conceptual topics in this section to so you can use it with other features to
organize your systems efficently.
2 Evaluate the methods of populating it with your systems, and keeping it up-to-date. For
example, through Active Directory synchronization, or criteria-based sorting.
3 Create and populate the System Tree.
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