McAfee EPOCDE-AA-BA - ePolicy Orchestrator - PC

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Summary

Introducing McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Software version 4.6.0

What is ePolicy Orchestrator software

Defines ePolicy Orchestrator as a scalable management platform for security.

Components and what they do

Setting up and configuring your ePolicy Orchestrator server

Configuring essential features

Covers essential features that must be configured for server operation.

Configuring general server settings

Details server settings for non-essential features and customization.

Creating user accounts

Explains how to create and manage user accounts for server access.

Setting up permission sets

Describes how to control user access levels to software features.

Configuring essential features

About essential features

Highlights essential features like Software Manager, System Tree, Policy Catalog.

Using the Guided Configuration to configure essential features

Guides users through configuring software deployment and policies.

Configuring advanced server settings

Configuring Active Directory user login

Reduces overhead by allowing users to log on using Windows authentication.

Authenticating with certificates

Explains client-side certificate authentication for secure server access.

Configuring Rogue System Detection server settings

Customizes Rogue System Detection settings for network security.

Managing security keys

Explains how security keys verify and authenticate communications and content.

Setting up repositories

Repository types and what they do

Ensuring access to the source site

Using SuperAgents as distributed repositories

Setting up registered servers

Registering servers

Tasks to register additional servers for integration with ePolicy Orchestrator.

Registering LDAP servers

Setting up Agent Handlers

Agent Handlers and what they do

Working with Agent Handlers

Organizing the System Tree

The System Tree structure

Explains the hierarchical structure for organizing network systems.

Considerations when planning your System Tree

Provides guidance on planning an efficient and well-organized System Tree.

Administrator access

Working with the agent from the McAfee ePO server

Agent-server communication

Explains the periodic communication between agents and the server.

Running client tasks immediately

Using the Software Manager to check in software

Whats in the Software Manager

Checking in, updating, and removing software using the Software Manager

Covers managing product components from the server via Software Manager.

Using policies to manage products and systems

Policy management

Explains policies as collections of settings for configuring security software.

Policy application

Details applying policies via inheritance or direct assignment.

How policy assignment rules work

Describes rules for managing policies based on specific criteria.

Working with the Policy Catalog

Using tasks to manage products and systems

Deployment packages for products and updates

Product and update deployment

Details the process of deploying product and update packages to systems.

Server tasks and what they do

Client tasks and what they do

Responding to events in your network

About using Automatic Responses

Introduces the Automatic Response feature for triggering actions based on events.

Automatic Responses and how it works

Explains how the Automatic Response feature interacts with ePolicy Orchestrator.

Determining how events are forwarded

Monitoring and reporting on your network security status

Monitoring with Dashboards

Querying the database and reporting on system status

Detecting Rogue Systems

Explains how to identify and manage rogue systems on the network.

Managing Issues and Tickets

Covers creating, modifying, assigning, and tracking issues.

Querying the database and reporting on system status

Query and report permissions

Working with queries

Multi-server rollup querying

Details running queries that report summary data from multiple databases.

Detecting Rogue Systems

What are rogue systems

Rogue System Detection states

Rogue System Detection policy settings

Allows configuration and management of Rogue System Sensor instances.

Rogue System Sensor

Managing Issues and Tickets

Integrating issues with third-party ticketing servers

Working with issues

Appendix: Maintaining ePolicy Orchestrator Databases

Perform regular maintenance of SQL Server databases

Details regular maintenance for Microsoft SQL Server databases.

Backup and restore ePolicy Orchestrator databases

Provides recommendations for regularly backing up and restoring databases.

Changing SQL Server information