Enforcing Policies For A Product On A Group; Enforcing Policies For A Product On A System - McAfee EPOCDE-AA-BA - ePolicy Orchestrator - PC Product Manual

15 Using policies to manage products and systems
Working with policies
Task
For option definitions, click ? in the interface.
1 Click Menu | Systems | System Tree | Systems, then select the desired group in the System Tree.
All the systems within this group (but not its subgroups) appear in the details pane.
Select the desired systems, then click Actions | Agent | Set Policy & Inheritance.
2
The Assign Policy page appears.
Select the Product, Category, and Policy from the drop-down lists.
3
Select whether to Reset inheritance or Break inheritance, then click Save.
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Enforcing policies for a product on a group

Use this task to enable or disable policy enforcement for a product on a System Tree group. Policy
enforcement is enabled by default, and is inherited in the System Tree.
Task
For option definitions, click ? in the interface.
Click Menu | Systems | System Tree | Assigned Policies, then select the desired group in the System Tree.
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Select the desired Product, then click the link next to Enforcement Status.
2
The Enforcement page appears.
3 To change the enforcement status you must first select Break inheritance and assign the policy and settings
below.
Next to Enforcement status, select Enforcing or Not enforcing accordingly.
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Choose whether to lock policy inheritance.
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Locking inheritance for policy enforcement prevents breaking enforcement for groups and systems
that inherit this policy.
Click Save.
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Enforcing policies for a product on a system

Use this task to enable or disable policy enforcement for a product on a system. Policy enforcement is
enabled by default, and is inherited in the System Tree.
Task
For option definitions, click ? in the interface.
1 Click Menu | Systems | System Tree | Systems, then select the group under System Tree where the system
belongs.
The list of systems belonging to this group appears in the details pane.
Select the desired system, then click Actions | Modify Policies on a Single System.
2
The Policy Assignment page appears.
Select the desired Product, then click Enforcing next to Enforcement status.
3
The Enforcement page appears.
If you want to change the enforcement status you must first select Break inheritance and assign the policy
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and settings below.
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