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3.6 Walkthrough Guide Deploying the Agent and Products
About deploying packages
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About deploying packages
The ePolicy Orchestrator deployment infrastructure supports deploying products and
ePolicy Orchestrator components.
Each McAfee product that ePolicy Orchestrator can deploy provides a product
deployment package (
PKGCATALOG
.z) file. ePolicy Orchestrator can deploy these
packages to any of your managed systems, once they are checked into the master
repository. The package catalog file contains the product installation files, which are
compressed in a secure format.
PKGCATALOG
.
Z
files are used for both virus definition (DAT) and engine update packages.
You can configure product policy settings before or after deployment. McAfee
recommends configuring policy settings before deploying the product to network
systems, this can save time and ensure that your systems as protected as desired as
soon as possible.
Global administrators can check these package types into the master repository with
pull tasks, or manually:
Table 4-3 Supported packaged types
Package type Description Origination
Virus definition (
DAT
) files.
File type:
PKGCATALOG
.
Z
The regular, daily
DAT
files
released by McAfee.
FTPSite and HttpSite update
sites, and the McAfee web site.
Use a pull task to download DAT
files directly into the master
repository, or download and
check them into the master
repository manually.
Scanning engine.
File type:
PKGCATALOG
.
Z
The updated scanning engine
for McAfee anti-virus products,
such as VirusScan Enterprise.
Engines are usually updated
once or twice a year. FTPSite and HttpSite update
sites, and the McAfee web site.
Use a pull task to download
engine files directly into the
master repository, or download
and check them into the master
repository manually.
SuperDAT (
SDAT
.
EXE
) files.
File type:
SDAT
.
EXE
The SuperDAT files contain
both
DAT
and engine files in
one update package.
If bandwidth is a concern,
McAfee recommends
updating
DAT
and engine files
separately.
McAfee web site.
Download and check SuperDAT
files into the master repository
manually.