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ePolicy Orchestrator
®
3.6 Walkthrough Guide
Installing and setting up
Use SuperAgents to wake up all agents on the network
8
1
Convert an agent on each subnet into a SuperAgent
You can turn any regular ePolicy Orchestrator agent into a SuperAgent. Use the ePolicy
Orchestrator Agent policy pages to do this. Since you only need one SuperAgent per
network subnet, be sure to configure SuperAgents for individual systems in your
Directory, and not for whole groups or sites as you did when deploying agents or
VirusScan Enterprise.
For example, in the sample test network used in this guide, we would convert one
agent into a SuperAgent in the
Domain1
site.
To do this:
1
In the console tree, select a desired system to host the SuperAgent. In a production
environment, you would want to select a system that is likely to be up and running
all the time.
2
In the details pane, open
ePO Agent
3.5.0
.
3
Click
Edit
at the right end of the
Configuration
row.
4
Select
New Policy
from the
Policy Name
drop-down list. The
Create new policy
dialog box
appears.
5
Select
Duplicate the following policy
, then select the policy you created earlier (to display
the agent system tray icon) from the drop-down list.
6
Provide a
New policy name
for the policy (for example,
SuperAgent Policy
), then click
OK
. The
Policy Settings
dialog box appears.
7
On the
General
tab, select
Enable SuperAgent functionality
.
8
Click
Apply All
, then click
Close
.
9
Click
Apply
at the end of the
Configuration
row on the
Assign Policies
page to assign the
new policy to the site selected in the console tree.
You can also create a SuperAgent repository on the system, but they are not
required for global updating and are not covered in this guide. See the
ePolicy
Orchestrator 3.6 Product Guide
for information on SuperAgent repositories.
10
Click
Apply All
to save the policy changes.
11
Right-click the system in the
Directory
and select
Agent Wakeup Call
.
12
Set
Agent Randomization
to
0
and click
OK
.
13
Repeat these steps if you have systems in other network subnets.
Wait a few moments while the SuperAgent is created.
You can use these SuperAgents to wake up other agents in the local subnet. This can
save bandwidth, especially in a large network with many remote, WAN-connected
sites. Send out wakeup calls to a few SuperAgents and let them wake up the other
agents in the local LAN.
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