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Configuring agentless audits How to handle mismatched McAfee Vulnerability Manager certificates Troubleshoot missing audit results Configure McAfee Vulnerability Manager to ensure that the latest audit results appear in queries and reports. The Data Collection Scan, PA: Maintain Foundstone audits server task, and MVM Data Import server task can all be run manually from the interface. If systems are not being audited because they are disconnected from the network, you can run the scan and server tasks more frequently or convert them to managed systems by installing the McAfee Policy Auditor agent plug-in. A managed system audits itself and returns the results once it is reconnected to the network. Task For option definitions, click ? in the interface. 1 Schedule the Data Collection Scan to audit systems and gather data. The scan must be given enough time to do its work and the schedule should match the smallest audit frequency. For example, if you schedule quarterly, monthly, and weekly audits, you should schedule the Data Collection Scan to run at the beginning of every week. 2 Schedule the PA: Maintain Foundstone audits server task to run after the Data Collection Scan has had enough time to complete. Click Menu | Risk & Compliance | Audits | View Foundstone Scans to determine how long the Data Collection Scan takes to run and schedule the Maintain McAfee Vulnerability Manager server task appropriately. 3 Schedule the MVM Data Import server task to run after the PA: Maintain Foundstone audits server task has had enough time to complete. How to handle mismatched McAfee Vulnerability Manager certificates Certificates are sets of electronic files created by a trusted Certificate Authority. They contain encrypted information that allows others to verify their origin. On a network, certificates allow systems to create a trust relationship that allows them to exchange information using encrypted communication. The McAfee Vulnerability Manager Configuration Manager is designed to enable SSL (X.509) server certificate creation, as well as the secure distribution and installation of those certificates. Server certificates contain both public and private keys used by a McAfee Vulnerability Manager system component. The private key is the crucial element in the authentication process and must be kept secure. Mismatched certificates There are two situations when your McAfee Policy Auditor does not match the McAfee Vulnerability Manager server certificates. • Repairing Policy Auditor - Clicking Repair for McAfee Policy Auditor in Add or Remove Programs does not reinstall new McAfee Vulnerability Manager Configuration Manager certificates. The repair option reconnects with McAfee Vulnerability Manager Configuration Manager, but the certificates are old and SSL communication fails. • Connecting to a new or different McAfee Vulnerability Manager server - Connecting to a new or different McAfee Vulnerability Manager server does not automatically install new certificates. McAfee Policy Auditor 6.0 software Product Guide for ePolicy Orchestrator 4.6 37

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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Troubleshoot missing audit results

Configure McAfee Vulnerability Manager to ensure that the latest audit results appear in queries

and reports.

The Data Collection Scan, PA: Maintain Foundstone audits server task, and MVM Data Import

server task can all be run manually from the interface.

If systems are not being audited because they are disconnected from the network, you can run

the scan and server tasks more frequently or convert them to managed systems by installing

the McAfee Policy Auditor agent plug-in. A managed system audits itself and returns the results

once it is reconnected to the network.

Task

For option definitions, click

in the interface.

Schedule the Data Collection Scan to audit systems and gather data. The scan must be

given enough time to do its work and the schedule should match the smallest audit

frequency. For example, if you schedule quarterly, monthly, and weekly audits, you should

schedule the Data Collection Scan to run at the beginning of every week.

Schedule the PA: Maintain Foundstone audits server task to run after the Data Collection

Scan has had enough time to complete. Click

Menu | Risk & Compliance | Audits | View

Foundstone Scans

to determine how long the Data Collection Scan takes to run and

schedule the Maintain McAfee Vulnerability Manager server task appropriately.

Schedule the MVM Data Import server task to run after the PA: Maintain Foundstone audits

server task has had enough time to complete.

How to handle mismatched McAfee Vulnerability

Manager certificates

Certificates are sets of electronic files created by a trusted Certificate Authority.They contain

encrypted information that allows others to verify their origin. On a network, certificates allow

systems to create a trust relationship that allows them to exchange information using encrypted

communication.

The McAfee Vulnerability Manager Configuration Manager is designed to enable SSL (X.509)

server certificate creation, as well as the secure distribution and installation of those certificates.

Server certificates contain both public and private keys used by a McAfee Vulnerability Manager

system component. The private key is the crucial element in the authentication process and

must be kept secure.

Mismatched certificates

There are two situations when your McAfee Policy Auditor does not match the McAfee

Vulnerability Manager server certificates.

•

Repairing Policy Auditor

—

Clicking

Repair

for McAfee Policy Auditor in Add or Remove

Programs does not reinstall new McAfee Vulnerability Manager Configuration Manager

certificates.The repair option reconnects with McAfee Vulnerability Manager Configuration

Manager, but the certificates are old and SSL communication fails.

•

Connecting to a new or different McAfee Vulnerability Manager server

—

Connecting

to a new or different McAfee Vulnerability Manager server does not automatically install new

certificates.

Configuring agentless audits

How to handle mismatched McAfee Vulnerability Manager certificates

McAfee Policy Auditor 6.0 software Product Guide for ePolicy Orchestrator 4.6