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Audit Policy Manager

The Policy Manager lets administrators activate and modify default policy rules provided with eTrust Audit. It also lets administrators write new policy rules. The policy rules specify filters for the events that are received at designated Routers, called Audit Nodes (AN) in the Policy Manager interface. Administrators can even define groups of ANs so that they can distribute policy rules to a number of systems. For example, you might create an AN group comprised of all systems where the eTrust Antivirus application is running.

After the Router receives the policy rules, it works independently of the Policy Manager to filter events until the Policy Manager distributes a new version of the policy rules.

The Policy Manager component includes the following:

• Policy Manager GUI
• Distribution Server, a Windows service that distributes policies to the ANs (routers)
• Default policies, a set of pre-built policies based on Log Names.

  You can add other policies to this set by importing custom policies using the pmu_template_exchange.exe command.