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Managing policy assignment rules, Creating Policy Management queries

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15 Using policies to manage products and systems Creating Policy Management queries Managing policy assignment rules Use this table to perform common management tasks when working with policy assignment rules. To perform these actions, click Menu | Policy | Policy Assignment Rules. Select the action to perform from the Actions menu or the Actions column. To do this... Do this... Delete a policy assignment rule Click Delete in the selected assignment row. Edit a policy assignment rule Export policy assignment rules Click on the selected assignment. The Policy Assignment Builder wizard opens. Work through each page of this wizard to modify this policy assignment rule. Click Export. The Download Policy Assignment Rules page opens, where you can view or download the PolicyAssignmentRules.xml file. Import policy assignment rules Edit the priority of a policy assignment rule Click Import. The Import Policy Assignment Rules dialog box opens, from which you can browse to a previously downloaded PolicyAssignmentRules.xml file. You are prompted to choose which rules included in the file to import. You can select which rules to import and, if any rules in the file have the same name as those already in your Policy Assignment Rules list, you can select which to retain. Click Edit Priority. The Policy Assignment Rule | Edit Priority page opens, where you change the priority of policy assignment rules using the drag-and-drop handle. View the summary of a Click > in the selected assignment row. policy assignment rule Creating Policy Management queries Use this task to create either of the following Policy Management queries: • Applied Policies query - Retrieves policies assigned to a specified managed systems. • Broken Inheritance query - Retrieves information on policies that are broken in the system hierarchy. Task For option definitions, click ? in the interface. 1 Click Menu | Reporting | Queries & Reports, then click Actions | New. The Query Builder wizard opens. 2 On the Result Type page, select Policy Management from the Feature Group list. 3 Select one of these Result Types, then click Next to display the Chart page: • Applied Client Tasks • Applied Policies • Client Tasks Assignment Broken Inheritance • Policies Assignment Broken Inheritance 4 Select the type of chart or table to display the primary results of the query, then click Next. The Columns page appears. If you select Boolean Pie Chart, you must configure the criteria you want to include in the query. 170 McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® 4.6.0 Software Product Guide

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Managing policy assignment rules
Use this table to perform common management tasks when working with policy assignment rules.
To perform these actions, click
Menu
|
Policy
|
Policy Assignment Rules
. Select the action to perform from the
Actions
menu or the
Actions
column.
To do this...
Do this...
Delete a policy
assignment rule
Click
Delete
in the selected assignment row.
Edit a policy
assignment rule
Click on the selected assignment. The Policy Assignment Builder wizard
opens. Work through each page of this wizard to modify this policy
assignment rule.
Export policy
assignment rules
Click
Export
. The Download Policy Assignment Rules page opens, where you
can view or download the PolicyAssignmentRules.xml file.
Import policy
assignment rules
Click
Import
. The Import Policy Assignment Rules dialog box opens, from
which you can browse to a previously downloaded
PolicyAssignmentRules.xml file. You are prompted to choose which rules
included in the file to import. You can select which rules to import and, if
any rules in the file have the same name as those already in your Policy
Assignment Rules list, you can select which to retain.
Edit the priority of a
policy assignment rule
Click
Edit Priority
. The Policy Assignment Rule | Edit Priority page opens,
where you change the priority of policy assignment rules using the
drag-and-drop handle.
View the summary of a
policy assignment rule
Click
>
in the selected assignment row.
Creating Policy Management queries
Use this task to create either of the following Policy Management queries:
Applied Policies
query — Retrieves policies assigned to a specified managed systems.
Broken Inheritance
query — Retrieves information on policies that are broken in the system hierarchy.
Task
For option definitions, click
?
in the interface.
1
Click
Menu
|
Reporting
|
Queries & Reports
, then click
Actions
|
New
.
The Query Builder wizard opens.
2
On the Result Type page, select
Policy Management
from the Feature Group list.
3
Select one of these Result Types, then click
Next
to display the Chart page:
Applied Client Tasks
Applied Policies
Client Tasks Assignment Broken Inheritance
Policies Assignment Broken Inheritance
4
Select the type of chart or table to display the primary results of the query, then click
Next
.
The Columns page appears.
If you select
Boolean Pie Chart
, you must configure the criteria you want to
include in the query.
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Creating Policy Management queries
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