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Configuring McAfee Policy Auditor Edit McAfee Policy Auditor server settings Server setting Description system data maintenance tasks to run. When the server task restarts, it resumes where it left off. The default setting is to let this task run for 2 hours. Frequency to run update audit assignments Defines the value, in hours, for running the PA: Update Audit Assignments server task. McAfee Policy Auditor sends audit content only to systems that are scheduled to receive the content. This reduces bandwidth and lessens client system disk space requirements. Full OVAL Results Allows you to retain full OVAL results for failed, non-patch checks that do not have Findings information. When you enable this setting, the software retains full OVAL results so that you can determine the cause of the failure. This setting is disabled by default and retains "thin" OVAL results, not the full OVAL results. Max number of FIM version files Defines the number of file integrity file versions to store. You can store the contents of up to 6 text files, including the baseline version. See the File Integrity Monitoring section for more information on baselines and file versions. Minimum pass percentage for rule aggregation When the percentage of rules that pass in an audit exceed the defined percentage, the software will aggregate the results in queries and reports. Number of benchmark results to purge The number of benchmark results purged when purging audit results. per batch Threads for audit results processing The number of processing threads allotted to audit results. The default number is 5. Violation limit Findings provide information about why checks failed in an audit. Since an audit may report thousands of violations, you can limit the number of violation shown in reports through the Violation Limit setting. By default, McAfee Policy Auditor truncates the number of violation results to 300. Edit McAfee Policy Auditor server settings Edit the McAfee Policy Auditor server settings to fit your organizational and business needs. Before you begin You must be a global administrator to perform this task. Task For option definitions, click ? in the interface. 1 From the interface, click Menu | Configuration | Server Settings. 2 Under Setting Categories, select Policy Auditor. The McAfee Policy Auditor server settings appear in the main panel. 3 Click Edit. The settings page appears. 4 Change the settings to the desired values, then click Save. How permission sets work When McAfee Policy Auditor is installed, it adds a permission group to each permission set. When you create a new permission set, the McAfee Policy Auditor permission group is added 18 McAfee Policy Auditor 6.0 software Product Guide for ePolicy Orchestrator 4.6

Section	Page
Contents	3
Introducing McAfee Policy Auditor	8
Audience	8
Conventions	8
Finding product documentation	9
Getting started with McAfee Policy Auditor	10
Introduction to compliance audits	10
Auditing systems	11
What's new	11
Software components and what they do	12
Use of ePolicy Orchestrator software features	13
Managed systems vs. unmanaged systems	14
Configuring McAfee Policy Auditor	16
Server settings and what they control	16
Edit McAfee Policy Auditor server settings	18
How permission sets work	18
Default permission sets	19
Edit permission sets	21
Using the McAfee Policy Auditor agent plug-in	22
The agent plug-in and how it works	22
Supported platforms	22
How content is managed	24
Install and uninstall the agent plug-in	24
Install the McAfee Policy Auditor agent plug-in	24
Uninstall the agent plug-in	25
Send a manual wake-up call to a group of systems	25
Display the system tray icon on Windows systems	26
Configuring agentless audits	27
How McAfee Policy Auditor integrates with the McAfee Vulnerability Manager extension	27
Uniform system management	27
McAfee Vulnerability Manager extension integration with scannable systems	28
Asset Discovery scans	28
Data collection scans	28
The Maintain Foundstone Audits server task	28
The Data Import server task	29
Server support	29
Configure McAfee Vulnerability Manager and the ePolicy Orchestrator extension	29
Create a McAfee Vulnerability Manager workgroup	30
Configure the McAfee Vulnerability Manager single sign-on feature	30
Create a data source to synchronize McAfee Vulnerability Manager and ePolicy Orchestrator	31
Register a McAfee Vulnerability Manager database server with McAfee Policy Auditor	32
Manage McAfee Vulnerability Manager credential sets	33
Create an Asset Discovery scan	33
Create an MVM Data Import task	34
Add systems found by McAfee Vulnerability Manager scans to the System Tree	35
Create a Data Collection Scan	35
View McAfee Vulnerability Manager scan status	36
How to handle missing audit results	36
Troubleshoot missing audit results	37
How to handle mismatched McAfee Vulnerability Manager certificates	37
Troubleshoot mismatched McAfee Vulnerability Manager certificates	38
Creating and managing audits	39
Audits and how they work	39
Audit frequency	40
When audits are run	40
Per audit data maintenance	40
Benchmark profiles and their effect on audits	41
Considerations for including systems in an audit	41
Benchmark labels and how they are used	41
Findings	42
Agentless audits	42
Activate benchmarks	42
Create an audit	43
Run an audit manually	43
Disable an audit	44
Delete audits	44
Audit whiteout and blackout periods	44
Set whiteout and blackout periods	44
Service Level Agreements	45
Create, edit, and delete Service Level Agreements	45
How viewing audit results works	46
Exporting audits and audit results	47
Export audits	47
Scoring Audits	49
Default scoring model	49
Flat unweighted scoring model	50
Flat scoring model	50
Absolute scoring model	51
Changing the scoring model	51
Managing Audit Waivers	52
Types of waivers	52
Exception waivers	53
Exemption waivers	53
Suppression waivers	53
Waiver status	54
Filtering waivers by status	54
How start and expiration dates work	54
Examples of filtering waivers by date	54
Filtering waivers by date	55
Filtering waivers by group	55
How waiver requests and grants work	56
Requesting waivers	56
Granting waivers	57
Making waivers expire	57
Deleting waivers	57
File Integrity Monitoring and entitlement reporting	59
How file integrity monitoring works	59
File information monitored	60
File baselines	60
Monitored and excluded files	60
File versioning	61
File version comparison	62
Accept file integrity monitoring events	62
Purge file integrity monitoring events	62
Entitlement reporting	62
Create and apply a file integrity monitoring policy	63
Create a file integrity monitoring policy	63
Apply a policy to systems	65
Compare file versions	65
Accept file integrity monitoring events	66
Purge file integrity monitoring events	66
Create a new file integrity monitoring baseline	67
Query reports for file integrity monitoring	67
Rollup reporting	68
Rollup capabilities	68
Rollup reporting considerations	68
Rollup server tasks	69
Rollup Data - PA: Audit Benchmark Results	69
Rollup Data - PA: Audit Rule Result	70
Rollup Data - PA: Audit Patch Check Result	71
Rollup reports	71
Configure rollup reporting	72
Findings	74
How findings work	74
Types of violations	74
Violation limit	75
Other Findings enhancements	75
Hide or unhide Findings results	75
Dashboards and Queries	77
Policy Auditor default dashboards	77
PA: Compliance Summary dashboard	80
PA: MS Patch Status Summary dashboard	80
PA: Operations	80
PA: PCI Summary	81
Queries as dashboard monitors	82
Policy Auditor agent plug-in debug tool	83
Execute the agent plug-in debug tool	83
Display help	84
Run an audit	84
Run a benchmark	85
Run a check	85
Save debug information	86
Appendix A: Implementing the Security Content Automation Protocol	87
Statement of FDCC compliance	87
Statement of SCAP implementation	88
Statement of CVE implementation	88
Statement of CCE implementation	89
Statement of CPE implementation	89
Statement of CVSS implementation	90
Statement of XCCDF implementation	90
Statement of OVAL implementation	90
Appendix B: Common Criteria requirements	92

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Description

Server setting

system data maintenance tasks to run. When the server task restarts, it

resumes where it left off.The default setting is to let this task run for 2

hours.

Defines the value, in hours, for running the PA: Update Audit Assignments

server task. McAfee Policy Auditor sends audit content only to systems that

Frequency to run update audit

assignments

are scheduled to receive the content. This reduces bandwidth and lessens

client system disk space requirements.

Allows you to retain full OVAL results for failed, non-patch checks that do not

have Findings information.When you enable this setting, the software retains

Full OVAL Results

full OVAL results so that you can determine the cause of the failure.This

setting is disabled by default and retains "thin" OVAL results, not the full OVAL

results.

Defines the number of file integrity file versions to store.You can store the

contents of up to 6 text files, including the baseline version. See the File

Integrity Monitoring section for more information on baselines and file versions.

Max number of FIM version files

When the percentage of rules that pass in an audit exceed the defined

percentage, the software will aggregate the results in queries and reports.

Minimum pass percentage for rule

aggregation

The number of benchmark results purged when purging audit results.

Number of benchmark results to purge

per batch

The number of processing threads allotted to audit results.The default number

is 5.

Threads for audit results processing

Findings provide information about why checks failed in an audit. Since an

audit may report thousands of violations, you can limit the number of violation

Violation limit

shown in reports through the Violation Limit setting. By default, McAfee Policy

Auditor truncates the number of violation results to 300.

Edit McAfee Policy Auditor server settings

Edit the McAfee Policy Auditor server settings to fit your organizational and business needs.

Before you begin

You must be a global administrator to perform this task.

Task

For option definitions, click

in the interface.

From the interface, click

Menu | Configuration | Server Settings

Under Setting Categories, select Policy Auditor.The McAfee Policy Auditor server settings

appear in the main panel.

Click

Edit

. The settings page appears.

Change the settings to the desired values, then click

Save

How permission sets work

When McAfee Policy Auditor is installed, it adds a permission group to each permission set.

When you create a new permission set, the McAfee Policy Auditor permission group is added

Configuring McAfee Policy Auditor

Edit McAfee Policy Auditor server settings

McAfee Policy Auditor 6.0 software Product Guide for ePolicy Orchestrator 4.6