McAfee EPOCDE-AA-BA Product Guide - Page 175

Using policies to manage products and systems Working with policies 15 5 Under Select repository by, specify the method to sort repositories: • Ping time - Sends an ICMP ping to the closest five repositories (based on subnet value) and sorts them by response time. • Subnet distance - Compares the IP addresses of client systems and all repositories and sorts repositories based on how closely the bits match. The more closely the IP addresses resemble each other, the higher in the list the repository is placed. If needed you can set the Maximum number of hops. • User order in repository list - Selects repositories based on their order in the list. 6 From the Repository list you can disable repositories by clicking Disable in the Actions field associated with the repository to be disabled. 7 In the Repository list, click Move to Top or Move to Bottom to specify the order in which you want client systems to select distributed repositories. 8 Click Save when finished. Changing the owners of a policy Use this task to change the owners of a policy. By default, ownership is assigned to the user that created the policy. This task can only be performed by global administrators. Task For option definitions, click ? in the interface. 1 Click Menu | Policy | Policy Catalog, then select the Product and Category. All created policies for the selected category appear in the details pane. 2 Locate the desired policy, then click on the Owner of the policy. The Policy Ownership page appears. 3 Select the desired owners of the policy from the list, then click OK. Moving policies between McAfee ePO servers Use these tasks to move policies between servers. To do this, you must export the policy to an XML file from the Policy Catalog page of the source server, then import it to the Policy Catalog page on the target server. Tasks • Exporting a single policy on page 175 Use this task to export a policy to an XML file. Use this file to import the policy to another McAfee ePO server, or to keep as a backup of the policy. • Exporting all policies of a product on page 176 Use this task to export all policies of a product to an XML file. Use this file to import the policy to another McAfee ePO server, or to keep as a backup of the policies. • Importing policies on page 176 Use this task to import a policy XML file. Regardless of whether you exported a single policy or all named policies, the import procedure is the same. Exporting a single policy Use this task to export a policy to an XML file. Use this file to import the policy to another McAfee ePO server, or to keep as a backup of the policy. McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® 4.6.0 Software Product Guide 175