Configure Your Policies And Client Tasks; Deploy Your Products And Software; Configure Advanced Features - McAfee EPOLICY ORCHESTRATOR 4.5 Product Manual

Getting Started with ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5
Setting up ePolicy Orchestrator

Configure your policies and client tasks

McAfee recommends that you configure policy settings before deploying the respective product,
component, or update to your managed systems. By doing so you can ensure that products
and components have the desired settings as soon as possible.
Policies
A policy is a collection of settings that you create and configure. These policies are enforced
by McAfee products. Policies ensure that the managed security products are configured and
perform according to that collection of settings.
Once configured, policies can be enforced at any level of the System Tree, as well as on specific
groups of users. System policies are inherited from their parent group in the System Tree.
However, you can break inheritance at any location in the tree in order to enforce specific
policies at a particular location. For more information about policies, see Policy management
and Policy application in Configuring Policies and Client Tasks .
To start configuring policies for systems in the System Tree, click Menu | Policy | Policy
Catalog, then select a product from the Product menu and click Actions | New Policy.
Client tasks
Client tasks are scheduled actions that run on managed systems that host any client-side
software. You can define tasks for the entire System Tree, a specific group, or an individual
system. Like policy settings, client tasks are inherited from parent groups in the System Tree.
For more information about client tasks, see Client tasks and what they do in Configuring Policies
and Client Tasks .
To start scheduling client tasks, click Menu | Systems | System Tree | Client Tasks, then
click Actions | New Task.

Deploy your products and software

Once your repositories, policy settings, and client tasks are created and configured, you can
deploy products, components, and updates to the desired systems with ePolicy Orchestrator.
You can perform these actions as needed, or you can schedule them using server tasks. For
more information, see Deploying Software and Updates .
To schedule these actions, click Menu | Automation | Server Tasks, then click Actions |
New Task.

Configure advanced features

Once your managed environment is up and running, you can configure and implement the
advanced features of ePolicy Orchestrator, including:
• Remote Agent Handlers
• Automatic Responses
• Issues and Ticketing
More information on these and all ePolicy Orchestrator features is available in the following
chapters of this guide.
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