McAfee® Host Intrusion Prevention 6.1 Product Guide

IPS Policies

 

IPS Client Rules

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Aggregated View

In the Aggregated View, you can aggregate client rule exceptions based on signature, user, process, status, reaction, and node to determine the frequency of similar exception rules created on all clients.

Manage exceptions that appear on the IPS Client Rules tab with the Aggregated View feature. This view enables you to combine exceptions that have the same attributes, so that only one aggregated exception appears, while keeping track of the number of times the exceptions occur. This information enables you to fine-tune a deployment, possibly transferring some of the client exception rules to administrator-mandated exception rules to reduce false positives for a particular system environment.

Aggregated exceptions appear in blue text and have a number in the Count column. To aggregate exceptions you select aggregation criteria while viewing exceptions.

Figure 4-20 IPS Client Rules—Aggregated View based on process

To aggregate client rules:

1Click the Aggregate View tab on the IPS Client Rules tab.

2In the Aggregate Client Rules dialog box, select the criteria for aggregating the client rule exceptions. Options include: Signature, User, Process, Enabled, Reaction, and Node.

3Click OK.

A list of signatures and the number of exception rules created for each appears.

4Select a row and click Show Individual Rules to see details of each exception rule associated with the selection.

Your are returned to the Regular View tab with details on each rule in the aggregated set.

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McAfee 6.1 manual Aggregated View, To aggregate client rules, Click the Aggregate View tab on the IPS Client Rules tab