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Configuring agentless audits How McAfee Policy Auditor integrates with the McAfee Vulnerability Manager extension • When you change a system from unmanaged to managed, this distinction is reflected in queries and page views. • McAfee Policy Auditor supports an all agent-based System Tree, an all agentless System Tree, and a mix of agent-based and agentless devices. A group can contain both managed and unmanaged systems. • Communication between McAfee Policy Auditor and McAfee Vulnerability Manager is through a single channel and can pass through common firewall configurations without reconfiguration. McAfee Vulnerability Manager extension integration with scannable systems The McAfee Vulnerability Manager extension can scan most operating systems supported by McAfee Policy Auditor. McAfee Vulnerability Manager can scan these operating systems: Windows 2000 Server Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Windows 2000 Advanced Server Windows 2008 Server Windows 2000 Professional Solaris 8 Windows XP Professional Solaris 9 Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition Solaris 10 Windows Server 2003 Advanced Edition Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, 5.1 AIX 5.3, 6.1 Asset Discovery scans ePolicy Orchestrator software supports the manual and automatic importing of systems into the System Tree. When McAfee Vulnerability Manager discovers new systems during a McAfee Vulnerability Manager Asset Discovery Scan, it designates them as rogue systems. Regardless of how assets are imported, users must add, or promote, them to the ePolicy Orchestrator server System Tree before they can be audited. McAfee Vulnerability Manager can only audit systems that have a Foundstone ID.The association between a system and a Foundstone ID is established when a system is imported from McAfee Vulnerability Manager and added to the System Tree. Data collection scans The McAfee Vulnerability Manager extension uses the Data Collection Scan to audit systems and gather compliance data. For audit results to remain current, the scan must be scheduled with sufficient time to audit systems before running the the PA: Maintain Foundstone server task. The Maintain Foundstone Audits server task The Maintain Foundstone Audits server task is responsible for setting audit frequency requirements, synchronizing audit information, distributing audit content, and performing cleanup tasks. 28 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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When you change a system from unmanaged to managed, this distinction is reflected in

queries and page views.

•

McAfee Policy Auditor supports an all agent-based System Tree, an all agentless System

Tree, and a mix of agent-based and agentless devices. A group can contain both managed

and unmanaged systems.

•

Communication between McAfee Policy Auditor and McAfee Vulnerability Manager is through

a single channel and can pass through common firewall configurations without reconfiguration.

McAfee Vulnerability Manager extension integration with scannable

systems

The McAfee Vulnerability Manager extension can scan most operating systems supported by

McAfee Policy Auditor.

McAfee Vulnerability Manager can scan these operating systems:

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition

Windows 2000 Server

Windows 2008 Server

Windows 2000 Advanced Server

Solaris 8

Windows 2000 Professional

Solaris 9

Windows XP Professional

Solaris 10

Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, 5.1

Windows Server 2003 Advanced Edition

AIX 5.3, 6.1

Asset Discovery scans

ePolicy Orchestrator software supports the manual and automatic importing of systems into the

System Tree.

When McAfee Vulnerability Manager discovers new systems during a McAfee Vulnerability

Manager Asset Discovery Scan, it designates them as rogue systems. Regardless of how assets

are imported, users must add, or promote, them to the ePolicy Orchestrator server System Tree

before they can be audited.

McAfee Vulnerability Manager can only audit systems that have a Foundstone ID.The association

between a system and a Foundstone ID is established when a system is imported from McAfee

Vulnerability Manager and added to the System Tree.

Data collection scans

The McAfee Vulnerability Manager extension uses the Data Collection Scan to audit systems

and gather compliance data. For audit results to remain current, the scan must be scheduled

with sufficient time to audit systems before running the the PA: Maintain Foundstone server

task.

The Maintain Foundstone Audits server task

The Maintain Foundstone Audits server task is responsible for setting audit frequency

requirements, synchronizing audit information, distributing audit content, and performing cleanup

tasks.

Configuring agentless audits

How McAfee Policy Auditor integrates with the McAfee Vulnerability Manager extension

McAfee Policy Auditor 6.0 software Product Guide for ePolicy Orchestrator 4.6