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McAfee Policy Auditor 6.0 software
Product Guide for ePolicy Orchestrator 4.6

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Contents
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
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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 McAfeeVulnerability 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
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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
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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
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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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Contents

Introducing McAfee Policy Auditor
McAfee®Policy Auditor version 6.0 automates the process required for system compliance
audits.It measures compliance by comparing the actual configuration of a system to the desired
state of a system.
To understand what the software does and how to use it, you must be familiar with these basics:
•What an audit is, when you should use it, and why you should use it.
•The supported deployment solutions based on the type(s) of systems you want to audit.
•The system classifications that determine which functional components can be used.
•The functional components you can use to audit systems.This includes leveraging the
software with McAfee Policy Auditor and other McAfee and third-party software.
•The functional components you can use to audit systems.This includes leveraging the
software with McAfee®Vulnerability Manager and other McAfee and third-party software.
This document introduces these concepts, successively builds your understanding, and provides
details about the use of each functional component. In addition, it helps you understand how
the software fits into the framework provided by McAfee®ePolicy Orchestrator®.
Contents
Audience
Conventions
Finding product documentation
Audience
McAfee documentation is carefully researched and written for the target audience.
The information in this guide is intended primarily for two audiences:
•Network administrators who are responsible for implementing and enforcing the policy for
protecting the company's intellectual property.
•Security officers who are responsible for determining sensitive and confidential data, and
defining the corporate policy that protects the company's intellectual property.
Conventions
This guide uses the following typographical conventions.
Title of a book, chapter, or topic; introduction of a new term; emphasis.Book title or Emphasis
Text that is strongly emphasized.Bold
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Commands and other text that the user types;the path of a folder or
program.
User input or Path
A code sample.
Code
Words in the user interface including options, menus, buttons, and dialog
boxes.
User interface
A live link to a topic or to a website.Hypertext blue
Additional information, like an alternate method of accessing an option.Note
Suggestions and recommendations.Tip
Valuable advice to protect your computer system, software installation,
network, business, or data.
Important/Caution
Critical advice to prevent bodily harm when using a hardware product.Warning
Finding product documentation
McAfee provides the information you need during each phase of product implementation, from
installing to using and troubleshooting.After a product is released, information about the product
is entered into the McAfee online KnowledgeBase.
1Go to the McAfee Technical Support ServicePortal at http://mysupport.mcafee.com.
2Under Self Service, access the type of information you need:
Do this...To access...
User Documentation 1Click Product Documentation.
2Select a Product, then select a Version.
3Select a product document.
KnowledgeBase •ClickSearch the KnowledgeBase foranswersto yourproduct questions.
•Click Browse the KnowledgeBase for articles listed by product and
version.
Introducing McAfee Policy Auditor
Finding product documentation
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Getting started with McAfee Policy Auditor
McAfee Policy Auditor is an extension to ePolicy Orchestrator software software versions 4.5
and 4.6 that automates the process for risk and compliance system audits. Audits can perform
tasks such as check system settings, including password length, open or closed ports, file
changes, and the presence of software updates.
Contents
Introduction to compliance audits
Auditing systems
What's new
Software components and what they do
Use of ePolicy Orchestrator software features
Managed systems vs.unmanaged systems
Introduction to compliance audits
Before using McAfee Policy Auditor, it is important to understand what audits are, when you
should use them, and why you should use them.
What are compliance audits?
A compliance audit is a comprehensive review of an organization's adherence to external
regulatory guidelines or internal best practices.McAfee Policy Auditor automates the compliance
audit process and allows you to demonstrate compliance to auditors by producing an audit trail
showing compliance, compliance history, and actions taken to mitigate risks.Organizations that
are out of compliance might be subject to fines or other sanctions, including criminal liability.
When should you use audits?
Use compliance audits when you are subject to government regulations that require your
organization to determine system compliance and maintain records.You should also use audits
to determine compliance with organizational requirements such as password complexity,
password length, the presence of unsupported software, and software patch requirements.
Why should you use audits?
McAfee Policy Auditor automates the process for mandated and organizational audits. Its
companion product, McAfee Benchmark Editor, contains built-in benchmarks that the software
can use for mandated audits, such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and the Payment Card Industry
Data Security Standards (PCI DSS).The reporting system allows you to demonstrate compliance
to auditors while the Findings feature helps you to find solutions to audit issues.
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Auditing systems
An audit is an independent evaluation of a computer system to determine whether it is in
compliance with corporate and industry security standards.Audit results show recommended
improvements to reduce risks.
McAfee Policy Auditor evaluates systems against independent standards developed by
government and private industry.It can also evaluate systems against standards that you create
yourself.McAfee Policy Auditor uses audits to determine the compliance status of systems and
returns results indicating any areas where the system is out of compliance.
Scoring audits
When you audit a system with McAfee Policy Auditor, it returns a score indicating how well the
systemcompliedwith the audit.McAfeePolicy Auditorsupportsthe fourscoringmodels described
in the eXtensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF) 1.1.4 specifications.
What's new
McAfee Policy Auditor has a number of new features to enhance user experience and expand
capabilities.
These are the major new features for this software release:
•McAfee®Policy Auditor Content Creator —Allows users to create simple benchmarks
and fill in the rule values manually or import them from an existing system.
•McAfee Benchmark Editor enhancements —McAfee added these new capabilities to the
software:
•Ability to drag and drop groups
•Ability to drag and drop rules between groups
•Ability to delete groups
•Enhanced display of expired results —Provides detailed information about expired results
to help users determine what steps to take.
•Server performance improvements —The server database has been rewritten to speed
processing and to eliminate duplicate storage. McAfee added four new dashboards to help
users understand the status of audits.
•Database health tools —McAfee added daily and weekly server tasks to speed database
access by reducing fragmentation and rebuilding fragmented indexes.
•Improved audit failure status —McAfee Policy Auditor agent plug-in audit exceptions are
logged in the ePolicy Orchestrator software server event log.The exceptions can be seen
through a new McAfee Policy Auditor server query and dashboard.
•Agent debug support —The McAfee Policy Auditor agent plug-in includes a tool to help
you solve problems on managed systems.The tool has these features:
•Interface —Graphical for Windows systems, console for all supported operating systems.
•Audits —Displays and allows you to run available audits.
•Benchmarks —Displays and allows you to run available benchmarks.
•Checks —Displays and allows you to run available checks.
•Debug information —Collect and save information, including the log file and database,
to a ZIP file.
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•Entitlement reporting —Entitlement reporting is an enhancement to the Policy Auditor File
Integrity Monitoring feature that produces custom file entitlement reports.It has these
capabilities:
•Monitors file entitlements, such as read and write attributes.
•Monitors files for changes.
•Monitors and displays changes to text files.
•Support for OVAL 5.7 –5.9 —The software adds support for OpenVulnerability and
Assessment Language (OVAL) versions 5.7, 5.8, and 5.9.
•Support for SCAP 1.1 —The software adds support for Security Content Automation
Protocol (SCAP) version 1.1.
•Agent support for new operating system platforms —The McAfee Policy Auditor agent
plug-in supports these new platforms:
•HP-UX 11i v2 Itanium
•HP-UX 11i v3 Itanium
•Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0
•SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
Software components and what they do
McAfee Policy Auditor installs components that help you analyze systems for compliance with
recognized, open-source standards and standards that you can create yourself.
These are the McAfee Policy Auditor components as they appear in the interface:
•Benchmark Editor —A utility used to enable, disable, create, and edit benchmarks. Each
audit must contain at least one benchmark.Ideally, audits should contain only one benchmark.
•Benchmark Editor Content Distributor —Distributes content downloaded from McAfee
Labs™to systems.
•Findings —Manages findings, which help you understand why an audit check failed and
provides information about how to fix the problem.
•PACore —The primary portion of the software that controls all other features.
•PARollup —Uses the rollup capabilities of ePolicy Orchestrator software to collect summary
information from registered ePolicy Orchestrator servers and show aggregated data.
•Policy Auditor —Handles policy and task management, audit schedules, and system
management.
McAfee Policy Auditor agent plug-in
The McAfee Policy Auditor agent plug-in expands the ability of the McAfee Agent to support
McAfee Policy Auditor.
When audits are deployed to systems with the McAfee Agent, the agent plug-in determines
when the audits should be run.The agent plug-in conducts audits at the appropriate time and
returns the results to the ePolicy Orchestrator server.The agent plug-in can conduct audits
when the managed system is off the network, and returns results to the ePolicy Orchestrator
server once the system is reconnected to the network.
Getting started with McAfee Policy Auditor
Software components and what they do
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Installing the agent plug-in adds a product icon to the McAfee Agent system tray. In Windows
environments, the product icon optionally displays a balloon tip to indicate the system is being
audited.
Systems that have the McAfee Policy Auditor agent plug-in installed are known, in McAfee Policy
Auditor terminology, as managed systems.
Use of ePolicy Orchestrator software features
McAfee Policy Auditor is an extension of ePolicy Orchestrator software, and uses and relies
upon many of its features.
McAfee Policy Auditor is configured from the ePolicy Orchestrator server.The
ePolicy Orchestrator server is the center of your managed environment and provides a single
location where you can administer and monitor security settings throughout your network.You
can use the default settings or configure the settings to match your organizational needs.
This table lists the applicable ePolicy Orchestrator software features and describes how they
are used by McAfee Policy Auditor.You should become familiar with each of the listed features
and their uses.
Used by McAfee Policy AuditorLocationePolicy Orchestrator feature
To assign policies, like file integrity
monitor, to managed systems.
Menu | Systems |
SystemTree | Assigned
Policies
Assign Policies
Menu | Systems |
SystemTree | Client
Tasks
Client tasks •To deploy the McAfee Policy
Auditor agent plug-in to detected
systems.
•To update the McAfee Policy
Auditor agent plug-into the latest
version.
•To wake up the McAfee Agent on
selected systems.
To create user contact information
when you want to notify specific
personnel by email of an event.
Menu | User
Management | Contacts
Contacts
Menu | Reporting |
Dashboards
Dashboards and Monitors •To create a new dashboard
containing McAfee Policy Auditor
monitors
•To manage the various
dashboards you use for policy
audits
•To access detailed information
about policy audits
Menu | Systems |
Detected Systems
Detected Systems (Rogue System Detection) •To identify systems detected by
McAfee Foundstone
•To determine whether the
coverage of network enforcement
appliances is sufficient.
To prioritize, assign, and track issues.
Issues can also be associated with
tickets in a third-party ticketing server.
Menu | Automation |
Issues
Issues
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Used by McAfee Policy AuditorLocationePolicy Orchestrator feature
Menu | Policy | Policy
Catalog
Policy Catalog •To manage the times when audits
are allowed to audit systems.
•To manage settings for the file
integrity monitor.
To create and maintain database
queries regarding system security
information.
Menu | Reporting |
Queries
Queries
To register a command that can be
run on the server as part of an
automatic response.
Menu | Configuration |
Registered Executables
Registered Executables
To check in and manage content
required by McAfee Policy Auditor,
Menu | Software | Master
Repository
Repositories
such as the Audit Engine content
containing all the compliance and
threat checks and published
benchmarks.
To specify parameter values affecting
the operations of McAfee Policy
Auditor.
Menu | Configuration |
Server Settings
Server Settings
Menu | Automation |
ServerTasks
Server Tasks •To synchronize data with McAfee
Vulnerability Manager using the
Maintain McAfee Vulnerability
Manager Audits task.
•To import McAfeeVulnerability
Manager data into McAfee Policy
Auditor.
•To manage Exemption Expiration.
•To process audit results.
To create tags that can be used to
help organize your systems.
Menu | Systems |Tag
Catalog
Tag Catalog
To create or edit a specific person as
a user of McAfee Policy Auditor and
their permission type.
Menu | User
Management | Users
Users
Managed systems vs. unmanaged systems
Knowing how McAfee Policy Auditor classifies systems on your network is important for setting
up and using the product, and for using its features.McAfee Policy Auditor uses two system
classifications: Managed systems and unmanaged systems.
•Managed systems —Systems in the SystemTree that have both the McAfee Agent and the
McAfee Policy Auditor Agent plug-in installed.
•Unmanaged systems —Systems in the System Tree that do not have the McAfee Policy
Auditor agent plug-in installed.
These classifications, and their characteristics and requirements, apply exclusively to
McAfee Policy Auditor functionality. Other McAfee products might use the same classifications,
but with different characteristics or requirements.
Getting started with McAfee Policy Auditor
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Auditing managed systems
When connected to a network managed by ePolicy Orchestrator software, managed systems
can exchange information with the ePolicy Orchestrator server as scheduled.The primary
advantage of managed systems is that they are audited by the agent even when they are not
connected to the network.When they are reconnected, the Agent plug-in communicates the
results to McAfee Policy Auditor.The Agent plug-in slightly increases memory and processor
use.
Auditing unmanaged systems
Unmanaged systems can be audited by registering a McAfee Vulnerability Manager 6.8 or
McAfee Vulnerability Manager 7.0 server with McAfee Policy Auditor. McAfee Vulnerability
Manager performs the audits and returns the results to McAfee Policy Auditor.The primary
advantage of unmanaged systems is that you can audit them without installing an agent.
Unmanaged systems cannot be audited when they are disconnected from the network.
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Configuring McAfee Policy Auditor
McAfee Policy Auditor is configured from the ePolicy Orchestrator server.The server is the
center of your security environment, providing a single location from which to administer system
security throughout your network.
Contents
Server settings and what they control
Edit McAfee Policy Auditor server settings
How permission sets work
Default permission sets
Edit permission sets
Server settings and what they control
McAfee supplies default settings for McAfee Policy Auditor and findings.You can change server
settings to fit your organizational needs.
These are the server settings for McAfee Policy Auditor.
DescriptionServer setting
As the amount of audit data grows, you can purge all audit data older than a
designated date.You can also manage the purge settings for individual audits.
Audit data retention
In large and complex organizations, the retention times for audit data may
vary by audit.The ability to specify data maintenance per audit lowers the
cost of maintaining audit data.
•Enable findings data purging —Allow McAfee Policy Auditor to purge
audit results data older than a specified date.This setting is enabled by
default.
•Purge findings data after —Edit to specify how long findings data should
be retained.The default setting is 12 months.
•Stop Data Maintenance after —If the PA: Purge Audit Results server
task runs longer than the time specified in this setting, it stops to allow
othersystem datamaintenance tasks to run.When the servertask restarts,
it resumes where it left off.The default setting is to let this task run for 2
hours.
•Remove related Findings results when purging Audit Results —
Select to purge Findings data when purging audit results.This setting is
selected by default.
Audit labels allow you to use different descriptions for the default labels of
Pass, Fail, Pass-Expired, Fail-Expired, or Other-Expired. For example, instead
Audit label
of the word Pass, you can choose to use the word Successful.McAfee
recommends that you keep the default settings, because most users find them
appropriate and intuitive.
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DescriptionServer setting
An audit score indicates how well a system conforms to the ideal settings
specified in an audit.McAfee Policy Auditor allows you to change the scoring
Audit score
definitions to reflect your organization's determination of what constitutes a
passed or failed audit.
•Minimum High Score —Any score equal to or greater than this setting
means that the system passed the audit.The default setting is 80, meaning
that an audit score above 80 is assigned a score category of Pass.
•Audit Score –Fail —Any audit score equal to or lower than this setting
means that the system failed the audit.The default setting is 60, meaning
that an audit score below 60 is assigned a score category of Fail.
•Maximum Low Score —Any score less than the Minimum High Score
but higher than the Audit Score - Fail setting means that the audit had
mixed results:it neither passed or failed.By default, an audit score
between 60 and 80 is assigned a score category of Other.
McAfee Policy Auditor software provides four categories with default names
and colors that describe the success of an audit.You can change the names
Audit score categories
to fit your organization's requirements, but most users find the default names
appropriate and easy to understand.
•High —The system passed the audit.
•Low —The system failed the audit.
•Medium —The system has mixed audit results. Critical systems warrant
attention to fix the audit failures, while non-critical systems may be left as
is.
•Unknown —McAfee Policy Auditor is unable to determine whether the
system passed an audit.Situations yielding a status of Unknown include
systems taken off the network or turned off.
Enables database maintenance features, including the rebuilding of indexes.Database Maintenance - allow online
rebuild of indexes
Specifies the amount of fragmentation that triggers index rebuilding and related
maintenance.
Database Maintenance - maintain
indexes whose fragmentation exceeds
this percentage
Specifies the amount of time, in hours, that database maintenance tasks run
before stopping.
Database Maintenance –stop
processing after this time
McAfee Policy Auditor supports the four standard eXtensible Configuration
Checklist Description Format (XCCDF) scoring models.These scoring models
are described in detail in Scoring Audits.
Default Scoring Model
Controls whether expired results are differentiated in a query.You can show
expired results as expired or differentiate them as follows:
Differentiate expired results in a query
•pass-expired —The results have expired but the last audit results
evaluated to pass.
•fail-expired —The results have expired but the last audit results evaluated
to fail.
•other-expired —The results have expired and the previous audit results
evaluated to a condition other than pass or fail.
Findings provide information about why checks failed in an audit.This setting
defines how long findings information is retained.
Findings data retention
•Enable findings data purging —Allow McAfee Policy Auditor to purge
findings information after older than a specified date.By default, this
setting is enabled.
•Purge findings data after —Specifies how long findings data should be
retained.The default setting is 12 months.
•Stop Data Maintenance after—If the FND: Purge Findings server task
runs longer than the time specified in this setting, it stops to allow other
Configuring McAfee Policy Auditor
Server settings and what they control
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DescriptionServer setting
system data maintenance tasks to run.When the server task restarts, it
resumes where it left off.The default setting is to let this task run for 2
hours.
Defines the value, in hours, for running the PA: Update Audit Assignments
server task. McAfee Policy Auditor sends audit content only to systems that
Frequency to run update audit
assignments are scheduled to receive the content.This reduces bandwidth and lessens
client system disk space requirements.
Allows you to retain full OVAL results for failed, non-patch checks that do not
have Findings information.When you enable this setting, the software retains
Full OVAL Results
full OVAL results so that you can determine the cause of the failure.This
setting is disabled by default and retains "thin" OVAL results, not the full OVAL
results.
Defines the number of file integrity file versions to store.You can store the
contents of up to 6 text files, including the baseline version. See the File
Integrity Monitoring section for more information on baselines and file versions.
Max number of FIM version files
When the percentage of rules that pass in an audit exceed the defined
percentage, the software will aggregate the results in queries and reports.
Minimum pass percentage for rule
aggregation
The number of benchmark results purged when purging audit results.Numberof benchmarkresults to purge
per batch
The number of processing threads allotted to audit results.The default number
is 5.
Threads for audit results processing
Findings provide information about why checks failed in an audit.Since an
audit may report thousands of violations, you can limit the number of violation
Violation limit
shown in reports through the Violation Limit setting.By default, McAfee Policy
Auditor truncates the number of violation results to 300.
Edit McAfee Policy Auditor server settings
Edit the McAfee Policy Auditor server settings to fit your organizational and business needs.
Before you begin
You must be a global administrator to perform this task.
Task
For option definitions, click ?in the interface.
1From the interface, click Menu | Configuration | Server Settings.
2Under Setting Categories, select Policy Auditor.The McAfee Policy Auditor server settings
appear in the main panel.
3Click Edit.The settings page appears.
4Change the settings to the desired values, then click Save.
How permission sets work
When McAfee Policy Auditor is installed, it adds a permission group to each permission set.
When you create a new permission set, the McAfee Policy Auditor permission group is added
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to the set. One or more permission sets can be assigned to users who are not global
administrators (global administrators have all permissions to all products and features).
Permission sets only grant rights and access —no permission ever removes rights or access.
When multiple permission sets are applied to a user account, they aggregate. For example, if
one permission set does not provide any permissions to server tasks, but another permission
set applied to the same account grants all permissions to server tasks, that account has all
permissions to server tasks.Consider this as you plan your strategy for granting permissions
to the users in your environment.
How users, groups, and permission sets fit together
Access to items within ePolicy Orchestrator is controlled by interactions between users, groups,
and permission sets. For more information on how they interact, see How users, groups, and
permission sets fit together in the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.6 Software Product Guide.
Default permission sets
McAfee Policy Auditor includes seven default permission sets that provide permissions for
McAfee Policy Auditor and related applications.
PermissionsPermission set
Benchmark EditorPA Admin
•Activate benchmarks
•Edit benchmark tailoring
•Create, delete, and apply labels
•Create, delete, modify, import, and unlock
benchmarks
•Create, delete, and import checks
Findings
•View and hide/unhide findings
Issue Management
•Create, edit, view, and purge assigned issues
Policy Assignment Rule
•View and edit rules
McAfee Policy Auditor
•Accept and delete events, and reset system baseline
•Allow access to Foundstone Enterprise Manager
(EM)
•Grant and modify waivers
•Allow access to File Entitlement
•Add, remove, and change audits and assignments
Policy Auditor Agent
•View and change settings
Policy Auditor Rollup
•View Policy Auditor rollup reports
McAfee Policy Auditor AgentPA Agent Admin
•View and change settings
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PermissionsPermission set
Benchmark EditorPA Audit Admin
•View and export checks
•View and export benchmarks
Findings
•View and hide/unhide findings
Issue Management
•Basic:Create issues and edit, view, and purge issues
created by or assigned to me
McAfee Policy Auditor
•View Waivers
•Allow access to Foundstone Enterprise Manager
(EM)
•Add, remove, and change audits and assignments
McAfee Benchmark EditorPA Benchmark Activator
•Activate benchmarks
•View and export checks
•View and export benchmarks
McAfee Benchmark EditorPA Benchmark Editor
•Edit benchmark tailoring
•Create, delete, and apply labels
•Create, delete, and import checks
•Create, delete, modify, and import benchmarks
McAfee Benchmark EditorPA Viewer
•View and export checks
•View and export benchmarks
Findings
•View findings
McAfee Policy Auditor
•View waivers
•View audits and assignments
McAfee Benchmark EditorPA Waiver Granter
•View and export benchmarks
•View and export checks
Findings
•View findings
Issue Management
•Create, edit, view, and purge assigned issues
McAfee Policy Auditor
•View audits and assignments
•Grant and modify waivers
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