McAfee 6.1 manual 189, Console tree

McAfee® Host Intrusion Prevention 6.1 Product Guide Glossary

console tree

The contents of the Tree tab in the left pane of the ePolicy Orchestrator console; it shows the items that are available in the console.

custom agent installation package

An agent installation package that uses the user credentials you provide to perform the installation, instead of those of the currently logged on user.

DAT files

Detection definition files, sometimes referred to as signature files.

See also EXTRA.DAT file, incremental DAT files, and SuperDAT.

denial of service

An attack method whereby a computer is overwhelmed with bogus requests, causing it to crash or keeping it from honoring legitimate requests.

denial-of-service attack (DoS)

A means of attack, an intrusion, against a computer, server or network that disrupts the ability to respond to legitimate connection requests. A denial-of-service attack overwhelms its target with false connection requests, so that the target ignores legitimate requests.

deploy, deployment

The act of distributing and installing and configuring client computers from a central location.

details pane

The right pane of the ePolicy Orchestrator console, which shows details of the currently selected console tree item.

Directory

In the console tree, the list of all computers to be managed via ePolicy Orchestrator; the link to the primary interfaces for managing these computers.

distributed software repositories

A collection of web sites or computers located across the network in such a way as to provide bandwidth-efficient access to client computers. Distributed software repositories store the files that client computers need to install supported products and updates to these products.

See also fallback repository, global distributed repository, local distributed repository, master repository, mirror distributed repository, source repository, and SuperAgent distributed repository.

download site

The McAfee web site from which you retrieve product or DAT updates.

See also update site.

effective policy

A union of all IPS Rules and Trusted Application Rules policies that apply to client computers.

enforce, enforcement

The act of applying predefined settings on client computers at predetermined intervals.

ePolicy Orchestrator agent

A program that performs background tasks on managed computers, mediates all requests between the ePolicy Orchestrator server and the anti-virus and security products on these computers, and reports back to the server to indicate the status of these tasks.

ePolicy Orchestrator console

The user interface of the ePolicy Orchestrator software that is used to remotely control and monitor managed computers.

See also ePolicy Orchestrator remote console.

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