Product guide

Before you begin
Before sending the agent wake-up call to a group, make sure that wake-up support for the
systems’ groups is enabled and applied on the General tab of the McAfee Agent policy pages.
This is enabled by default.
Task
For option definitions, click ? in the interface.
1 In the ePolicy Orchestrator user interface, click Menu | Systems | System Tree, then select
the group in the System Tree.
2 Select the systems from the list, then click Actions | Wake Up Agents.The Wake Up
McAfee Agent page appears.
3 Verify that the systems appear next to Target systems.
4 Next to Wake-up call type, select whether to send an Agent Wake-Up Call or a
SuperAgent Wake-Up Call.
5 Accept the default Randomization (0 – 60 minutes) or type a different value.
NOTE: If you type 0, agents respond immediately. Consider carefully the number of systems
that are receiving the wake-up call and how much bandwidth is available.
6 By default, Get full product properties is selected.This causes the agent plug-in to send
complete system properties to McAfee Policy Auditor. Deselect this option if you want to
send only properties that have changed since the last agent-server communication.
7 Click OK to send the wake-up call.
8 Verify that the agent plug-in and ePolicy Orchestrator server are communicating: go to
Reporting | Audit Log and search the log for an entry Wake Up Agents | Succeeded.
Display the system tray icon on Windows systems
You can configure McAfee Policy Auditor to display a system tray icon on Windows systems.
The icon cannot is not available for non-Windows systems.
The icon allows the user to see the status of audits, including whether an audit is running,
scheduled, not scheduled, or disabled. It optionally displays a balloon tip to indicate that the
system is being audited.
Task
For option definitions, click ? in the interface.
1 In the ePolicy Orchestrator user interface, click Menu | Systems | System Tree, then click
the Assigned Policies tab.
2 From the Product drop-down list, select Policy Auditor Agent.
3 Under the Policy column in the My Default row, click Edit Settings. The whiteout/blackout
page appears.
4 Next to General Options, select Show the Policy Auditor system tray icon (Windows
only), then click Save.
Using the McAfee Policy Auditor agent plug-in
Display the system tray icon on Windows systems
McAfee Policy Auditor 6.0 software Product Guide for ePolicy Orchestrator 4.626