McAfee EPOCDE-AA-BA - ePolicy Orchestrator - PC, Product Manual

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Contents
Preface 11
About this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
What's in this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Finding product documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Introducing McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Software
version 4.6.0
1 Introducing McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Software version 4.6.0 15
What is ePolicy Orchestrator software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Components and what they do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
How the software works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
How to navigate the ePolicy Orchestrator interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
About the ePolicy Orchestrator navigation Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
About the navigation bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2 Planning your ePolicy Orchestrator configuration 21
About scalability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
When to use multiple ePolicy Orchestrator servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
When to use multiple remote Agent Handlers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Server configuration overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Setting up and configuring your ePolicy Orchestrator
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3 Configuring essential features 27
About essential features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Using the Guided Configuration to configure essential features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
4 Configuring general server settings 31
About general server settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Configuring general server settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Allowing agent deployment credentials to be cached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Specifying default dashboards and dashboard refresh intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Determining which events are forwarded to the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Choosing an ePO Notification Event interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Configuring settings for global updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Providing a license key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Creating a custom login message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
McAfee Labs Security Threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Controlling unsupported product policy visibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Changing agent communication ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
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