Using Policies To Manage Products And Systems; Policy Management - McAfee EPOCDE-AA-BA - ePolicy Orchestrator - PC Product Manual

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Using policies to manage products and
systems
Policies ensure that a product's features are configured correctly on your managed systems.
Managing products from a single location is a central feature of ePolicy Orchestrator. One of the ways
this is accomplished is through application and enforcement of product policies. Policies ensure a
product's features are configured correctly, while client tasks are the scheduled actions that run on the
managed systems hosting any client-side software.
Are you configuring policies for the first time?
When configuring policies for the first time:
1 Plan product policies for the segments of your System Tree.
2 Create and assign policies to groups and systems.
Contents

Policy management

Policy application
How policy assignment rules work
Creating Policy Management queries
Working with the Policy Catalog
Working with policies
Viewing policy information
Sharing policies among McAfee ePO servers
Frequently asked questions
Policy management
A policy is a collection of settings that you create, configure, then enforce. Policies ensure that the
managed security software products are configured and perform accordingly.
Some policy settings are the same as the settings you configure in the interface of the product
installed on the managed system. Other policy settings are the primary interface for configuring the
product or component. The ePolicy Orchestrator console allows you to configure policy settings for all
products and systems from a central location.
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