Viewing Assigned Policies; Testing A Security Policy - Symantec 20032623 - Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition Implementation Manual

124 Using policies to manage security

Viewing assigned policies

Viewing assigned policies

Testing a security policy

See Performing tasks that are common to all security policies"
See Viewing assigned policies"
To assign a policy to a group
1
In the console, click Policies.
2
On the Policies page, select a policy, and then click Assign the policy.
3 In the Assign policy dialog box, select the groups, and then click Assign.
4 Click OK to confirm.
You can verify that your security policies are assigned to the correct groups from
the Computers page. You can also view policy settings from this page.
See Assigning a policy to a group"
See Performing tasks that are common to all security policies"
Click Help for more information about the assigned policies.
To view assigned policies
1
In the console, click Computers.
2 On the Computers page, on the Policies tab, in the group tree, click a group.
The policies that are assigned to the selected group are shown. Click a policy
to view its settings.
Click Tasks for more options.
Symantec recommends that you test a policy before you use it in a production
environment.
See Performing tasks that are common to all security policies"
To test a policy
1
Create a group to use for policy testing.
2
Assign the test policy to the test group.
3 Identify three or four managed computers to use for policy testing.
If necessary, install the client software on the computers. Install the
computers as managed computers.
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