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McAfee ePO Advanced Suite Installer Product Guide
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Systems and the System Tree
The ePolicy Orchestrator System Tree organizes managed systems in units for monitoring, assigning
policies, scheduling tasks, and taking actions. These units are called groups, which are created and
administered by Global Administrators or users with the appropriate permissions, and can include both
systems and other groups.
As shown in the graphic below, the installer created a sample system tree during setup. Three groups
were created under the default My Organization group; Laptops, Servers, and Workstations. Note
that the Servers group also has several subgroups for different server types based on function or role.
Adding systems to your System Tree groups
If you chose Automatic Discovery of systems during the installation, use the following steps to organize
your test systems in the System Tree. If you did not select Automatic Discovery, skip to the following
task, entitled Adding systems manually.
Adding systems with Automatic Discovery
1 Click the System Tree button on the favorites bar.
2 Click on the My Organization group on the left. The systems are displayed on the right.
3 If there are any systems discovered that you do not want to be included in your testing, you can
remove them from the tree. Place a check in the box next to all the systems you want to remove (you
can use Shift+Click to select more than one), click Actions | Directory Management | Delete, and
then click OK. You do NOT need to check the box for Remove Agent on Next Agent-to-Server
Communication.
4 Drag and drop the remaining systems to their appropriate groups. You can drag multiple systems by
placing a check mark by each first. A dialog box will appear asking “Are you sure you want to move the
system(s)?”. Click OK. You can check the box if you do not wish to see this dialog in the future.
Adding systems manually
1 In the System Tree, highlight the Workstations group and click System Tree Actions
| New Systems.
2 For How to Add Systems, select Add systems to the current group, but do not push agents.
3 For Target Systems, type the NetBIOS name for each system in the text box, separated by commas,
spaces, or line breaks. You can also click Browse to select systems.
4 Verify that System Tree sorting is disabled.