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File Integrity Monitoring and entitlement reporting
Create and apply a file integrity monitoring policy
One aspect of compliance monitoring is knowing which accounts have access to which files.
McAfee Policy Auditor monitors these access permissions.
User — User who has access to the file.
Is Group — Whether the User is a group.
Read Data — Whether the User has the ability to read the file.
Write Data — Whether the User has the ability to write to the file.
Execute — Whether the User has the ability to execute the file.
Delete — Whether the User has the ability to delete the file.
Create and apply a file integrity monitoring policy
Using a file integrity monitoring policy is a two-stage process. First, you must create the policy.
Next, you must apply the policy to selected systems in a System Tree group. You can create
one policy per group.
Tasks
Create a file integrity monitoring policy
Apply a policy to systems
Compare file versions
Accept file integrity monitoring events
Purge file integrity monitoring events
Create a new file integrity monitoring baseline
Create a file integrity monitoring policy
Create a policy to monitor file integrity, file entitlement, and version changes.
Before you begin
You must install the McAfee Policy Auditor agent plug-in on all systems that are to be monitored.
For instructions on how to do this, see Managing the McAfee Policy Auditor agent plug-in.
When adding, editing, or excluding text files, you can use the ? wildcard to represent one
character and the * wildcard to represent multiple characters.
Task
For option definitions, click ? in the interface.
1
Click Menu | Policy | Policy Catalog.
2
From the Product drop-down list, select Policy Auditor Agent 6.0.0.
3
From the Category drop-down list, select File Integrity Monitor.
4
Click Actions | New Policy. The New policy dialog box appears.
5
Provide information about the new policy:
Option
Category
McAfee Policy Auditor 6.0 software Product Guide for ePolicy Orchestrator 4.6
Definition
Select File Integrity Monitor. This is selected by default.
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