Policy assignment rule priority .........................166
About user-based policy assignments ......................167
About system-based policy assignments .....................168
Using tags to assign system-based policies ....................168
Working with policy assignment rules ......................169
Creating Policy Management queries .........................170
Working with the Policy Catalog ...........................171
Creating a policy from the Policy Catalog page ..................172
Duplicating a policy on the Policy Catalog page ..................172
Editing a policy’s settings from the Policy Catalog .................173
Renaming a policy from the Policy Catalog ....................173
Deleting a policy from the Policy Catalog .....................173
Working with policies ................................173
Configuring agent policies to use a distributed repository ..............174
Changing the owners of a policy ........................175
Moving policies between McAfee ePO servers ...................175
Assigning a policy to a group of the System Tree .................176
Assigning a policy to a managed system .....................177
Assigning a policy to multiple managed systems within a group ...........177
Enforcing policies for a product on a group ....................178
Enforcing policies for a product on a system ...................178
Copying and pasting assignments .......................179
Viewing policy information .............................180
Viewing groups and systems where a policy is assigned ...............181
Viewing the settings of a policy ........................181
Viewing policy ownership ...........................182
Viewing assignments where policy enforcement is disabled .............182
Viewing policies assigned to a group ......................182
Viewing policies assigned to a specific system ...................183
Viewing a group’s policy inheritance .......................183
Viewing and resetting broken inheritance ....................183
Sharing policies among McAfee ePO servers ......................183
Setting up policy sharing for multiple McAfee ePO servers ..............184
Frequently asked questions .............................185
16 Using tasks to manage products and systems 187
Deployment packages for products and updates .....................187
Product and update deployment ...........................189
First time product and update deployment overview ...................189
Server tasks and what they do ...........................190
Global updating ...............................190
Pull tasks .................................192
Replication tasks ..............................193
Deploying update packages with pull and replication tasks ..............194
Allowed Cron syntax when scheduling a server task ................198
About the pull and replication task information in the Server Task log .........199
Client tasks and what they do ............................199
How the Client Task Catalog works .......................200
Deployment tasks ..............................200
Update tasks ................................203
Working with client tasks ...........................204
Confirming that clients are using the latest DAT files ...................205
Evaluating new DATs and engines before distribution ...................206
17 Managing packages and extensions manually 207
Bringing products under management .........................207
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