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Setting up Agent Handlers
You can create and configure multiple, remote Agent Handlers for use in your network.
Contents
Agent Handlers and what they do
How Agent Handlers work
Handler groups and priority
Working with Agent Handlers
Agent Handlers and what they do
Agent Handlers handle communication between agents and your McAfee ePO server.
Each ePolicy Orchestrator server contains a master Agent Handler. Additional Agent Handlers can be
installed independently of your main McAfee ePO server on systems throughout your network.
Setting up additional Agent handlers can:
• Help manage an increased number of products and systems managed by a single, logical ePolicy
Orchestrator server in situations where the CPU on the database server is not overloaded.
• Provide fault tolerant and load-balanced communication with a large number of agents, including
geographically distributed agents.
How Agent Handlers work
Agent Handlers distribute network traffic, which is generated by an agent-to-server communication
interval (ASCI), by assigning managed systems or groups of systems to report to a specific Agent
Handler. Once assigned, a managed system performs regular agent-server communication to its Agent
Handler instead of to the main McAfee ePO server.
The handler provides updated sitelists, policies, and policy assignment rules, just as the McAfee ePO
server does. The handler also caches the contents of the master repository, so that agents can pull
product update packages, DATs, and other necessary information.
When an agent checks in with its handler, if the handler does not have
the updates needed, the handler retrieves them from the assigned
repository and caches them, while passing the update through to the
agent.
The Systems per agent handler chart displays all the agent handlers installed and the number of
agents managed by each agent handler.
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