McAfee EPOLICY ORCHESTRATOR 4.5 Product Manual page 169

Managing your Network with Policies and Client Tasks
How policy assignment rules work
Before you begin
To complete this task you must:
• Have a registered LDAP server. For more information, see Registering LDAP servers .
• Set up Windows Authorization for your registered LDAP server. For more information, see
Configuring Windows Authorization .
to assign policy assignment rules
Task
For option definitions, click ? in the interface.
1 Click Menu | Policy | Policy Assignment Rules, then click Actions | New Assignment
Rule. The Policy Assignment Builder wizard opens to the Details page.
2 Specify a unique Name and Description for this policy assignment rule, then click Next.
The Selection Criteria page opens.
NOTE: By default, the priority for new policy assignment rules is assigned sequentially
based on the number of existing rules. You can edit the priority of this and any rule by
clicking Edit Priority on the Policy Assignment Rules page.
3 Specify the System property details for this rule. You can apply additional Available Properties
to this policy assignment rule. The available properties include:
• Group Membership — Specifies the group to which a user is assigned.
• Organizational Unit — Specifies the Organizational Unit (OU) to which a user belongs.
• User — Specifies a unique user name to which this policy will be assigned.
4 Click Next. The Assigned Policies page opens. Click Add to select the policies that you
want to be enforced by this policy assignment rule. You can also Edit or Remove assigned
policies from this page.
5 Review the summary and click Save.
Managing policy assignment rules
Use this table to perform common management tasks when working with policy assignment
rules. To perform these actions, click Menu | Policy | Policy Assignment Rules. Select the
action to perform from the Actions menu or the Actions column.
To do this...
Delete a policy
assignment rule
Edit a policy
assignment rule
Export policy
assignment rules
Import policy
assignment rules
Edit the priority of a
policy assignment
rule
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Do this...
Click Delete in the selected assignment row.
Click Edit Settings for the selected assignment. The Policy Assignment Builder wizard opens.
Work through each page of this wizard to modify this policy assignment rule.
Click Export. The Download Policy Assignment Rules page opens, where you can view or
download the PolicyAssignmentRules.xml file.
Click Import. The Import Policy Assignment Rules dialog box opens, from which you can
browse to a previously downloaded PolicyAssignmentRules.xml file. You are prompted to choose
which rules included in the file to import. You can select which rules to import and, if any rules
in the file have the same name as those already in your Policy Assignment Rules list, you can
select which to retain.
Click Edit Priority. The Policy Assignment Rule | Edit Priority page opens, where you change
the priority of policy assignment rules using the drag-and-drop handle.
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