Policy Management

Question 1

What are policies?

Answer 1

Collection of rules and/or settings that make sure features are configured correctly on systems.

Question 2

what do the features of a policy include?

Answer 2

It is the central locatioin or the creation and management of default custom policies.

Question 3

What can policy assignment rules do?

Answer 3

Reduce overhead of managing numerous policies for individual users or systems that meet specific criteria while maintaning more generic policies across the system tree.

Question 4

What is the purpose of policy history?

Answer 4

View and compare policy history entries or revert to a previous versions of a policy.

Question 5

What does it mean to compare policies?

Answer 5

Users can compare like policies which can be the settings, matches and differences between policies. Many of the values and variables are specific to each product.

Question 6

Do users need to have the appropriate permissions to view and edit policies?

Answer 6

Yes

Question 7

What permissions do admins have in regards to policies?

Answer 7

Admins always have permissions to view and edit policies.

Question 8

What permissions are added to new products and extensions?

Answer 8

None, products and extensions have no permissions by default.

Question 9

What is policy assignment?

Answer 9

The allocation of a specific named policy object at a specific node w/ in the PO system tree

Question 10

What is policy inheritance?

Answer 10

The concept of a higher level policy assignment being applied to a lower-level node.

Question 11

What does creating a policy at system tree level do?

Answer 11

Gives all systems identical settings.

Question 12

What sections is the Policy Catalog divided into?

Answer 12

Products, Policy Catalog, Policy Details

Question 13

Are default policies read only or editable?

Answer 13

Read only

Question 14

Where can policies be edited?

Answer 14

The Policy Catalog and the System Tree.

Question 15

Who can change policy ownership?

Answer 15

Only the admin or owner of the policy.

Question 16

What is locking a policy assignment?

Answer 16

• Prevents other users from changing policy assignments settings: In the group where locking took place and in any subgroups.
• Does not prevent a policy from being modified
Prevents breaking inheritance below the point of assignment

Question 17

What is locking a policy assignment?

Answer 17

Prevents other users from changing policy assignments settings: In the group where locking took place and in any subgroups.
Can be locked at any group within the System Tree
Does not prevent a policy from being modified
Prevents breaking inheritance below the point of assignment

Question 18

are policies based on user specific or system specific criteria?

Answer 18

BOTH
System-based rules:
Assigned to managed systems
Assigned priority, which can be changed
Cannot include user-based criteria

User-based rules:
Assigned to groups, organizational units, or user names
Can include system-based criteria
Enforced when users log into the network

Question 19

What is the default Enforcement status of policies?

Answer 19

Enforcing.

Question 20

When are policies enforced?

Answer 20

The agent communicates with the ePO server or the Agent Handler at the configured
agent-to-server communications interval (ASCI)
You send an Agent Wake Up call from the ePO server (updates and enforces policies on the client)
In addition, if the client end user has access to the McAfee Agent Status Monitor (set by the policy), the user can click the Check New Policies button to initiate communication and enforce policy changes.

Question 21

What is policy history?

Answer 21

When a use changes a setting of the policy.

Question 22

What will the policy history display?

Answer 22

Policy History
Server task log details
Audit log details
only policies you create in the ppolicy catalog have Policy History entries.