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ePolicy Orchestrator
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3.6 Walkthrough Guide
Installing and setting up
Use SuperAgents to wake up all agents on the network
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You can use the client update task you created earlier after you deployed VirusScan
Enterprise (see
Update DAT files with a client update task
on page 106
). Simply modify
the schedule of this task from
Run Immediately
to
Daily
and set the start time to run about
an hour after your replication task begins.
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Test global updating with SuperAgents
Global updating can automatically update all your client systems every time you check
new updates into your master repository. Every time you change your master
repository, ePolicy Orchestrator automatically replicates the contents to any distributed
repositories you have. Then it alerts all agents deployed in your network that have
managed products, such as VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i, to perform an immediate update
task.
The global updating feature is useful in a virus outbreak situation. Assume that
McAfee’s AVERT team has posted updated DAT files in response to a newly-discovered
virus. With global updating enabled, you simply initiate a pull task from your ePolicy
Orchestrator console to update your master software repository with the new DAT
files. ePolicy Orchestrator’s global updating feature does the rest—updating the DAT
files for all systems running active, communicating agents on your network within an
hour.
Use SuperAgents to wake up all agents on the network
ePolicy Orchestrator uses something called a SuperAgent to initiate the global update.
SuperAgents are ePolicy Orchestrator agents that can also wake up other agents
located in the same network subnet. When you have a SuperAgent installed in each
network subnet, you send a SuperAgent wakeup call to your SuperAgents, and then
the SuperAgents send wakeup calls to the ePolicy Orchestrator agents in the same
subnet. The regular agents can then call back to the ePolicy Orchestrator server for
policy instructions and update client software.
To enable global updating:
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Convert an agent on each subnet into a SuperAgent
.
2
Enable global updating on ePolicy Orchestrator server
.
Note
SuperAgents can also act as distributed repositories. These SuperAgent repositories
use a proprietary McAfee replication protocol called SPIPE, and can either replace or
augment other HTTP, FTP, or UNC distributed repositories you have created. This
guide does not cover SuperAgent repositories, however. Refer to the
ePolicy
Orchestrator 3.6 Product Guide
for information on SuperAgent repositories.
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