Specifications

Policies and packages

Policies are the settings that govern each product on the endpoint. Packages are the binaries that can

be deployed by the McAfee Agent to your endpoints.

Policies include the settings for any supported products from McAfee VirusScan Enterprise to McAfee

Endpoint Encryption. These policies include every checkbox and setting that dictates what the

endpoint product does on each one of your systems.

Deployment packages are the actual binaries deployed by the McAfee Agent to your endpoint systems.

This includes deploying a full product, such as, a new version of VirusScan Enterprise or McAfee

SiteAdvisor to your endpoint systems. Policies and packages do not rely on each other and are not

connected. In other words, just because you want to manage VirusScan Enterprise policies with

ePolicy Orchestrator does not mean you have to deploy VirusScan Enterprise with ePolicy Orchestrator.

Contents

Manage policies

McAfee agent policy

Deploying packages

Manage policies

A policy is a collection of settings that you create and configure, then enforce. Policies ensure that the

managed security software products are configured and perform accordingly. ePolicy Orchestrator

manages policies for all point-products that the McAfee Agent can manage.

The following example shows all the products in the drop-down list that the McAfee ePO server can

manage.

McAfee

ePolicy Orchestrator

4.0 and 4.5 Best Practices Guide