McAfee EPOLICY ORCHESTRATOR 4.0.2

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0.2

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Introducing ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0.2................................................13

ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0.2 components and what they do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

The ePO server....................................................................13

TheMcAfeeAgent..................................................................14

Usingthisguide...........................................................................14

Audience.........................................................................15

Where to find McAfee enterprise product information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Configuring ePolicy Orchestrator Servers..............................................16

ePO user accounts........................................................................17

Global administrators...............................................................17

How permission sets work..................................................................17

Contacts.................................................................................18

Serversettingsandthebehaviorstheycontrol..................................................18

Availableservertasks and whatthey do.......................................................19

The Audit Log............................................................................20

The Event Log............................................................................20

Data exports from any table or chart.........................................................21

MyAVERT Security Threats .................................................................22

Logging on and off from ePO servers.........................................................22

Logging on to ePO servers...........................................................22

LoggingoffofePO servers...........................................................23

Viewing the server version number ..........................................................23

Working with user accounts.................................................................23

Creating user accounts..............................................................23

Editing user accounts...............................................................24

Deleting user accounts..............................................................24

Workingwithpermissionsets................................................................24

Creatingpermissionsetsforuseraccounts..............................................25

Duplicating permission sets..........................................................25

Editing permission sets..............................................................26

Deletingpermissionsets.............................................................26

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Working with contacts.....................................................................26

Creating contacts..................................................................26

Editingcontacts....................................................................27

Deleting contacts..................................................................27

Working with server settings................................................................27

Specifying an email server...........................................................28

Configuring the template and location for exported reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Determining which events are forwarded to the server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Viewingandchangingcommunicationports.............................................29

Working with the Server Task Log............................................................29

Viewing the Server Task Log.........................................................30

Filtering the Server Task Log.........................................................30

Purging the Server Task Log.........................................................31

Working with the Audit Log.................................................................31

ViewingtheAuditLog...............................................................31

Purging the Audit Log...............................................................32

PurgingtheAuditLogonaschedule...................................................32

Working with the Event Log.................................................................33

Viewing the Event Log..............................................................33

Purging events....................................................................33

Purging the Event Log on a schedule..................................................34

WorkingwithMyAvertSecurityThreats........................................................34

Configuring MyAvert update frequency and proxy settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Viewing threat notifications..........................................................35

Deleting threat notifications..........................................................35

Exporting tables and charts to other formats...................................................36

Allowed Cron syntax when scheduling a server task.............................................36

Organizing Systems for Management..................................................38

The System Tree..........................................................................39

Considerations when planning your System Tree................................................40

Administrator access................................................................40

Environmental borders and their impact on system organization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Subnets and IP address ranges.......................................................41

Tagsand systems with similar characteristics............................................42

Operating systems and software......................................................42

Tags and how they work...................................................................42

Active Directory and NT domain synchronization................................................43

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Active Directory synchronization......................................................43

NT domain synchronization..........................................................45

Criteria-based sorting......................................................................45

Howsettingsaffectsorting...........................................................46

IP address sorting criteria...........................................................46

Tag-based sorting criteria............................................................47

Group order and sorting.............................................................47

Catch-all groups...................................................................47

How a system is first placed in the System Tree................................................47

Working with tags.........................................................................48

CreatingtagswiththeTagBuilder.....................................................49

Excludingsystemsfromautomatictagging..............................................49

Applyingtagsto selected systems.....................................................50

Applying criteria-based tags automatically to all matching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Creating and populating groups..............................................................51

Creatinggroupsmanually............................................................52

Addingsystemsmanuallytoanexistinggroup...........................................53

Importingsystemsfromatextfile.....................................................54

Sortingsystems into criteria-based groups..............................................55

Importing Active Directory containers..................................................57

Importing NTdomains toan existinggroup.............................................59

Synchronizing the System Tree on a schedule...........................................61

Updating the synchronized group with an NT domain manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Moving systems manually within the System Tree...............................................62

Distributing Agents to Manage Systems...............................................64

Agents and SuperAgents...................................................................65

Agent-server communication ...............................................................66

SuperAgents and broadcast wake-up calls..............................................67

Agentactivity logs.........................................................................69

Agentpolicysettings.......................................................................69

Security Keys.............................................................................71

Agent-server secure communicationkeys...............................................71

Master repository key pair...........................................................72

Other repository public keys.........................................................72

Methods of agent distribution...............................................................72

Creating custom agent installation packages...................................................73

Distributing agents........................................................................73

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Deploying the agent with ePolicyOrchestrator...........................................74

Installing the agent with login scripts..................................................76

Installingtheagentmanually.........................................................77

Enabling the agent on unmanaged McAfee products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Including the agentonanimage......................................................78

Using other deployment products.....................................................79

Distributing the agent to WebShield appliances and Novell NetWare servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Forcing the agent to call in to the server......................................................79

Upgrading existing agents..................................................................79

Upgrading agents using login scripts or manual installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Upgrading agents with ePolicy Orchestrator.............................................80

Removing the agent.......................................................................81

Running FRMINST.EXE from a command line............................................81

Removing agents when deleting systems from the System Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Removing agents when deleting groups from the System Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Removing agents from systems in query results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Maintaining the agent......................................................................82

Sending manual wake-up calls to systems..............................................83

Sending manual wake-up calls to a group..............................................83

Sending wake-up calls on a schedule..................................................84

Viewing the agent activity log........................................................85

Viewing of the agent and product properties............................................85

Running agent tasks from the managed system.........................................86

Workingwithsecuritykeys...........................................................88

Agent command-line options................................................................94

Agentinstallationcommand-lineoptions.......................................................94

Creating Repositories....................................................................96

Repository types and what they do...........................................................96

Types of distributed repositories......................................................98

Repository branches and their purposes................................................99

Repositorylistfileanditsuses........................................................99

Howrepositorieswork together.............................................................100

Ensuringaccesstothesource site...........................................................101

Using Internet Explorer proxy settings for the master repository. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Configuring custom proxy settings for the master repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Working with source and fallback sites.......................................................103

Switching source and fallback sites...................................................103

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Creating source sites..............................................................104

Editing source and fallback sites.....................................................105

Deleting source or fallback sites.....................................................105

Using SuperAgents as distributed repositories.................................................105

Creating SuperAgent repositories....................................................106

Selecting which packages are replicated to SuperAgent repositories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Deleting SuperAgent distributed repositories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Creating and configuring FTP, HTTP, and UNC repositories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Creating a folder location on an FTP, HTTP server or UNC share. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Adding the distributed repository to ePolicy Orchestrator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Enabling folder sharing for UNC and HTTP repositories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Editing distributed repositories ......................................................110

Deleting distributed repositories.....................................................110

Working with the repository list files.........................................................110

Exporting the repository list SITELIST.XML file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Exporting the repository list SITEMGR.XML file for backup or use by other servers. . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Importing distributed repositories from the SITEMGR.XML file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Importing source sites from the SITEMGR.XML file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Changing credentials on multiple distributed repositories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Managing Products with Policies and Client Tasks..................................114

Extensionsand what they do...............................................................114

Policy management.......................................................................115

Policy application.........................................................................116

Client tasks and what they do..............................................................117

Bringing products under management.......................................................118

Viewing policy information.................................................................118

Viewing groups and systems where a policy is assigned. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Viewing the settings of a policy......................................................119

Viewing policy ownership...........................................................119

Viewing assignments where policy enforcement is disabled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Viewingpoliciesassignedtoagroup..................................................120

Viewing policies assigned to a specific system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Viewing a group’s policy inheritance..................................................120

Viewingand resetting broken inheritance..............................................120

WorkingwiththePolicyCatalog.............................................................121

CreatingapolicyonthePolicyCatalogpage...........................................121

Duplicating a policy on the Policy Catalog page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

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Editing a policy’s settings from the Policy Catalog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Renaminga policy from the PolicyCatalog.............................................122

Deleting a policy from the Policy Catalog..............................................123

Working with policies.....................................................................123

Changingthe ownerof apolicy......................................................123

SharingpoliciesbetweenePOservers.................................................124

Assigning a policy to a group of the System Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Assigningapolicytoamanagedsystem...............................................125

Assigning a policy to multiple managed systems within a group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Enforcing policies for a product on a group............................................126

Enforcing policies for a product on a system...........................................126

Copying and pasting assignments....................................................127

Working with client tasks..................................................................128

Creating and scheduling client tasks..................................................129

Editing client tasks................................................................129

Deleting client tasks...............................................................129

Frequently asked questions................................................................130

Deploying Software and Updates......................................................131

Deployment packages for products and updates...............................................131

Product and update deployment............................................................133

Deployment tasks.................................................................134

Update tasks.....................................................................134

Global updating...................................................................135

Pull tasks........................................................................136

Replication tasks..................................................................137

Repository selection...............................................................137

Server TaskLog...................................................................138

Checking in packages manually.............................................................138

Using the Product Deployment task to deploy products to managed systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Configuring the Deployment task for groups of managed systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Configuring the Deployment task to install products on a managed system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Deploying update packages automatically with global updating. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Deploying update packages with pull and replication tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Using pull tasks to update the master repository. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Replicating packages from the master repository to distributed repositories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Configuring agent policies to use a distributed repository. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Using local distributed repositories that are not managed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

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Checking in engine, DAT and EXTRA.DAT update packages manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Updating managed systems regularly with a scheduled update task. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Confirming that clients are using the latest DAT files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Evaluating new DATs and engines before distribution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Manually moving DAT and engine packages between branches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Deleting DAT or engine packages from the master repository. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Sending Notifications...................................................................152

Notificationsand how itworks..............................................................153

Throttlingandaggregation..........................................................153

Notification rules and System Tree scenarios...........................................153

Default rules.....................................................................155

Planning................................................................................155

Determining how events are forwarded......................................................156

Determining which events are forwarded immediately. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Determining which events are forwarded..............................................157

SettingupePONotifications................................................................157

Giving users appropriate permissions to Notifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Working with SNMP servers.........................................................158

Working with registered executables and external commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Creating and editing Notification rules.......................................................163

Describing the rule................................................................163

Setting filters for the rule...........................................................164

Settingthresholdsoftherule........................................................164

Configuringthenotificationsfortherule...............................................165

Viewing the history of Notifications..........................................................166

Configuring the Notification Log.....................................................166

Viewing the details of Notification Log entries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Purging the Notifications Log........................................................167

Product and component list................................................................168

Frequently asked questions................................................................168

Querying the Database.................................................................170

Queries................................................................................170

Public and personal queries.........................................................171

Query permissions................................................................171

Query Builder...........................................................................172

Multi-server roll-up querying...............................................................173

Preparing for roll-up querying..............................................................174

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Registering ePO servers............................................................174

CreatingaDataRollUpservertask...................................................174

Working with queries.....................................................................175

Creating custom queries............................................................175

Running an existing query..........................................................176

Running a query on a schedule......................................................176

Making personal queries public......................................................178

Duplicating queries................................................................178

Sharing a query between ePO servers................................................179

Exporting query results to other formats..............................................179

Default queries and what they display.......................................................180

MA: Agent Communication Summary query............................................180

MA:AgentVersionSummaryquery...................................................180

ePO: Compliance History query......................................................181

ePO: Compliance Summary query....................................................181

ePO: Malware Detection History query................................................181

ePO:DistributedRepositoryStatusquery..............................................182

ePO: Failed User Actions in ePO Console query. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

ePO: Failed Logon Attempts query...................................................182

ePO: Multi-Server Compliance History query...........................................182

ePO:SystemsperTop-LevelGroupquery..............................................183

ePO: Systems Tagged as Server query................................................183

ePO: Today’s Detections per Product query............................................183

Assessing Your Environment With Dashboards......................................184

Dashboards and how they work............................................................184

Queries as dashboard monitors......................................................184

Default dashboard monitors.........................................................184

Setting up dashboardaccessandbehavior....................................................185

Giving users permissions to dashboards...............................................185

Configuring the refresh frequency of dashboards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

WorkingwithDashboards..................................................................186

Creating dashboards...............................................................186

Makingadashboardactive..........................................................186

Selecting all active dashboards......................................................187

Makingadashboardpublic..........................................................187

Detecting Rogue Systems..............................................................189

Whatareroguesystems...................................................................189

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