
Querying the Database
Policy Auditor ships with its own querying and reporting capabilities. These are highly
customizable and provide flexibility and ease of use. Included is the Query Builder wizard
which creates and runs queries that result in user-configured data in user-configured charts
and tables.
To get you started, McAfee includes a set of default queries which provide the same information
as the default reports of previous versions.
Are you setting up queries for the first time?
When setting up queries for the first time:
• Understand the functionality of queries and the Query Builder wizard.
• Review the default queries, and edit any to your needs.
• Create queries for any needs that aren’t met by the default queries.
Contents
Queries
Query Builder
Multi-server roll-up querying
Preparing for roll-up querying
Working with queries
Default queries and what they display
Queries
Queries are configurable objects that retrieve and display data from the database. The results
of queries are displayed in charts and tables. Any query’s results can be exported to a variety
of formats, any of which can be dowloaded or sent as an attachment to an email message.
Some queries can be used as dashboard monitors.
Query results are actionable
Query results are now actionable. Query results displayed in tables (and drill-down tables) have
a variety of actions available for selected items in the table. For example, you can deploy agents
to systems in a table of query results. Actions are available at the bottom of the results page.
Queries as dashboard monitors
Use almost any query (except those using a table to display the initial results) as a dashboard
monitor. Dashboard monitors refresh automatically on a user-configured interval (five minutes
by default).
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