Configuring Essential Features; About Essential Features - McAfee EPOCDE-AA-BA - ePolicy Orchestrator - PC Product Manual

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Configuring essential features

Get up-and-running quickly by configuring the essential features of your ePolicy Orchestrator server.
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About essential features

Using the Guided Configuration to configure essential features
About essential features
Several of your ePolicy Orchestrator server features are essential for its use, and must be configured
before you can deploy and manage security software on the systems in your network.
The essential features of your McAfee ePO server are:
• The Software Manager — Allows you to check in new and updated security software into your
ePolicy Orchestrator server and Master Repository from within the console.
• The System Tree — Contains all of the systems managed by your ePolicy Orchestrator server.
• The Policy Catalog — Where you configure the security policies that control the security software
deployed to your managed systems.
• The Client Task Catalog — Where you create, assign, and schedule client tasks to automate tasks
that run on your managed systems.
• The McAfee Agent — Enables management of a system on your network. Once deployed, the agent
communicates status and all associated data to and from your server and the managed system. It
is the vehicle through which security software is deployed, policies are enforced, and tasks are
assigned.
This version of the software comes equipped with the ePolicy Orchestrator Guided Configuration tool.
This tool is designed to help you configure these essential features, and to become familiar with the
ePolicy Orchestrator interface. The Guided Configuration helps you complete the necessary steps to:
1 Get McAfee security software checked into your Master Repository, so it can be deployed to
systems in your network.
2 Add your systems to the ePolicy Orchestrator System Tree, so you can bring them under
management.
3 Create and assign at least one security policy to be enforced on your managed systems.
The McAfee Agent is an independent software product required for your
ePolicy Orchestrator server to manage systems on your network. It is
checked in to your Master Repository automatically when you install your
McAfee ePO software.
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