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To

 

export

 

and

 

then

 

clear

 

ALL

 

user

 

audits

 

use

 

this

 

command:

 

 

SBADMCL

 

–Command:DumpUserAudit

 

–Adminuser:Admin

 

–Adminpwd:mypassword

 

File:c:\dump\Dumpuser.txt

 

–Group:*

 

–clear

 

 

To

 

export

 

and

 

then

 

clear

 

ALL

 

machine

 

audits

 

use

 

this

 

command:

 

 

SBADMCL

 

–Command:DumpMachineAudit

 

–Adminuser:Admin

 

–Adminpwd:mypassword

 

File:c:\dump\DumpMachine.txt

 

–Group:*

 

–clear

 

 

To

 

export

 

and

 

clear

 

ALL

 

user

 

audits

 

90

 

days

 

and

 

older

 

use

 

this

 

command:

 

 

SBADMCL

 ‐

Command:DumpUserAudit

 ‐

Adminuser:Admin

 ‐

Adminpwd:mypassword

 ‐

Group:*

 ‐

File:c:\Dump\DuUserAu90.txt

 ‐

ClearDaysold:90

  

 

To

 

export

 

and

 

clear

 

ALL

 

machine

 

audits

 

90

 

days

 

and

 

older

 

use

 

this

 

command:

 

 

SBADMCL

 

–Command:DumpMachineAudit

 

–Adminuser:”Admin”

 

–Adminpwd:”mypassword”

 

File:DuMachAu90.txt

 

–Group:*

 

–ClearDaysOld:90

 

 

For

 

further

 

analysis

 

of

 

the

 

Audit

 

see

 

the

 

Advice

 

on

 

handling

 

audit

 

document.

 

 

To

 

export

 

and

 

clear

 

from

 

a

 

specific

 

group

 

add

 

the

 

group

 

name

 

instead

 

of

 

*

 

 

 

Deleted

 

Items

 

Cleanup

 

As

 

mentioned

 

previously

 

clearing

 

objects

 

from

 

Deleted

 

Items

 

(found

 

through

 

the

 

System

 

tab

 

in

 

McAfee

 

Endpoint

 

Encryption

  

Manager)

 

can

 

aid

 

Object

 

Directory

 

access

 

speed.

   

When

 

the

 

deleted

 

items

 

are

 

emptied,

 

the

 

actual

 

physical

 

folder

 

for

 

the

 

object

 

within

 

the

 

Object

 

Directory

 

is

 

renamed.

 

The

 

extension

 

of

 

the

 

folder

 

is

 

renamed

 

from

 

.RMV

 

to

 

.WPE.

 

With

 

a

 

very

 

large

 

database,

 

these

 

empty/removed

 

folders

 

can

 

sometimes

 

slow

 

down

 

searches.

 

   

In

 

a

 

test

 

lab,

 

try

 

removing

 

.WPE

 

folders

 

and

 

test

 

search

 

speeds.

  

If

 

an

 

improvement

 

is

 

found,

 

it

 

may

 

be

 

worth

 

repeating

 

on

 

the

 

live

 

Object

 

Directory.

  

Always

 

ensure

 

tests

 

and

 

full

 

backups

 

are

 

performed

 

before

 

any

 

procedure.

 

 

Checking

 

for

 

Database

 

Corruption

 

Why

 

does

 

the

 

database

 

get

 

corrupted?

 

Corruptions

 

can

 

be

 

caused

 

by

 

failed

 

installations

 

and

 

bad

 

sectors

 

on

 

endpoint

 

systems

 

or

 

unsupported

 

procedures,

 

disconnected

 

network

 

links

 

to

 

the

 

Object

 

Directory*

 

or

 

failing

 

drives

 

and

 

so

 

on.

 

 

Poor

 

or

 

slow

 

access

 

to

 

the

 

Object

 

Directory

 

can

 

cause

 

a

 

slow

 

or

 

intermittent

 

access

 

to

 

the

 

database.

  

This

 

can

 

cause

 

the

 

Object

 

Directory

 

to

 

corrupt

 

during

 

database

 

operations.

  

Endpoint

 

installations

 

can

 

fail

 

and

 

cause

 

corruption.

 

In

 

addition,

 

as

 

a

 

consequence,

 

corrupted

 

objects

 

can

 

cause

 

a

 

corrupted

 

index,

 

and

 

to

 

complete

 

the

 

circle

 

this

 

can

 

also

 

cause

 

corrupted

 

objects

 

themselves.

 

Slowness

 

of

 

the

 

disk

 

access

 

can

 

be

 

a

 

problem

 

when

 

using

 

shared

 

resources

 

SAN

 

or

 

NAS

 

connections

 

rather

 

than

 

DAS.

 

 

See

 

the

 

document

 

Server

 

and

 

Object

 

Directory

 

Optimization

 

section

 

above

 

for

 

detailed

 

information

 

about

 

the

 

performance

 

settings.

 

 

*More

 

robust

 

in

 

v5

 

Release

 

5701

 

onwards.

 

 

 

Summary of Contents for ENDPOINT ENCRYPTION ENTERPRISE - BEST PRACTICES GUIDE

Page 1: ...1 McAfee Endpoint Encryption Enterprise Best Practices Guide November 2009...

Page 2: ...d No part of this publication may be reproduced transmitted transcribed stored in a retrieval system or translated into any language in any form or by any means without the written permission of McAfe...

Page 3: ...OF 5000 USER MACHINE OBJECT DIRECTORY 10 VIRTUAL SERVERS 10 GLOBAL DEPLOYMENTS 11 OPTIMISATION ACTIONS 11 OPTIMISATION ACTIONS OVERVIEW 12 NAME INDEXING DBCFG INI 13 WARNINGS 13 DBCFG INI 13 GROUP SI...

Page 4: ...19 CLEARING THE AUDIT 19 DELETED ITEMS CLEANUP 20 CHECKING FOR DATABASE CORRUPTION 20 WHY DOES THE DATABASE GET CORRUPTED 20 ORPHANED OBJECTS 21 RESTORE COMMANDS 21 CLEANUP COMMANDS 21 DUMP MACHINE D...

Page 5: ...e product and the environment in which it is being used before arriving at any decision on implementation strategy Calculations and figures in this guide are based on field evidence and not theoretica...

Page 6: ...a distributed way For example the Web Helpdesk component can be installed on a dedicated web server while the rest of the components are on a separate Endpoint Encryption Server However the majority o...

Page 7: ...hared Server can be used for low numbers Please see Virtual Server section in this guide Virtual hardware has to be of higher specification if resources are shared See Page 11 2000 5000 users systems...

Page 8: ...nvironment has not been fully tested at this time in engineering Load Balancing Given the best configuration is usually a single high performance server with DAS then the least optimal way to perform...

Page 9: ...s The default settings of the Communication Server limit the queue to 200 entries a balance between taking connections and processing connections After that point the connections are refused This is a...

Page 10: ...use of Virtual Servers is a result of Lack of resources dedicated to the virtual server Dynamically assigned resources to the virtual server which starves it of the necessary performance during peak p...

Page 11: ...y is necessary it is better to include endpoints from all regions in the pilot phase Optimisation Actions NOTE These are generic recommendations based on experience but not always be suitable for your...

Page 12: ...me to five minutes Disable NTFS Last Access Update with a registry change Increase the size of the NTFS Master File Table MFT with a registry change Optimize backups Exclude the Object Directory and t...

Page 13: ...smaller than 5000 systems otherwise you find the number by multiplying the number of users or systems in the database by 0 6 Example If the number of users in the database is 10 000 the Locktimeout s...

Page 14: ...lable from your McAfee representative Attribs SingleFile No If this is set to Yes the attributes for objects will be placed into a single file instead of each one having their own file Not generally u...

Page 15: ...ours NOTE A similar setting KeepAliveInterval has a default 1000 1 second this setting is correct so do not change this Last Access Time Stamp NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate With large databases it is po...

Page 16: ...3 or 4 instead of the default value of 1 Object Directory Backup Tool Setup If you set up your Object Directory backup tool make sure it is not running too many times a day because the in between tim...

Page 17: ...ed you schedule EEPC command line tool SBADMCL to cleanup machine audit and the user audit See Endpoint Encryption Object Directory Maintenance section below File Cache on Raid Hard Drive Controller L...

Page 18: ...containing old deleted users systems and other objects and are found through the System tab in the Endpoint Encryption Manager These objects can slow searches down If these objects are needed for aud...

Page 19: ...ds please see the Endpoint Encryption Scripting Tool User Guide which is found in most normal installations of the Endpoint Encryption Manager Extracting and Clearing Audit from the Database The audit...

Page 20: ...within the Object Directory is renamed The extension of the folder is renamed from RMV to WPE With a very large database these empty removed folders can sometimes slow down searches In a test lab try...

Page 21: ...have a full backup of SBDATA before doing this Restore Commands To restore orphaned user objects back into a group use this command SBADMCL Command RestoreUsers Adminuser Admin Adminpwd mypassword Gr...

Page 22: ...ects in the DumpMaDesc log can be deleted from the database If the normal deletion doesn t work use Windows Explorer to browse to the actual location in the database and delete the physical folder In...

Page 23: ...utes servicing each client EEPC has excellent password synchronization across all the endpoint clients a user is assigned to It is therefore logical that adding thousands of users to each machine will...

Page 24: ...nate Requests This option stops the machine from entering hibernation mode Note this option is not supported in Vista With later versions of EEPC v5 x this should normally be left disabled to allow no...

Page 25: ...ppear as a fixed drive and therefore swaps with the fixed disk after booting from it It can cause recovery problems with Remove or Emergency Boot for example Alternatively use with a floppy disk drive...

Page 26: ...tion to encrypted data Using one autoboot user for too many machines Instead use more autoboot users to reduce the multiple connections and load on the autoboot user object in the database Autoboot us...

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