Product guide

Editing existing audits
Use these tasks to edit existing audits. Editing audits is useful in a number of situations, for
example:
• The groups or systems in your organization changes
• You wish to select a different profile for a benchmark
• The frequency needs to be changed
Tasks
Selecting benchmarks for existing audits
Selecting systems for existing audits
Defining frequency for existing audits
Naming and describing your audits
Saving your existing audits
Selecting benchmarks for existing audits
Use this task to select one or more benchmarks for use in an existing audit.
Before you begin
You must have appropriate permissions to perform this task.
You must have benchmarks that have been activated by Benchmark Editor. For the overwhelming
number of users, McAfee-supplied benchmarks can be used as is. Go to Systems |
Benchmarks, select benchmarks that are in the received state, and click activate. Users with
special needs can tailor McAfee-supplied benchmarks and edit third-party benchmarks.
Task
For option definitions, click ? on the page displaying the options.
1 Go to Systems | Audits. The Audits tab appears.
2 Click New Audit. The Select Benchmarks page of the New Audit Builder appears.
3 Click the Label drop-down box and select a label that matches the type of audit that you
wish to create. For example, select the FISMA label and all benchmarks related to FISMA
will appear in the activated Benchmarks section.
4 In the activated Benchmarks section, scroll through the filtered benchmarks and select
one or more benchmarks that you wish to appear in your audit. Click Add Benchmark.
5 In the Selected Benchmarks section, click select profile to choose the profile that you
wish to use in your audit. Note that some benchmarks do not have any profiles.
6 If you decide that you do not wish to use one or more of the benchmarks in the Selected
Benchmarks section, click remove.
7 Click Next. The Select Systems page appears.
Selecting systems for existing audits
Use this task to select which managed systems you want to audit.
Creating and Managing Audits
Creating a new audit
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