Create A Distributed Repository; Create A Shared Folder On The System To Use As A Repository - McAfee EPOLICY ORCHESTRATOR 3.6 - WALKTHROUGH GUIDE Manual

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Create a distributed repository

But where do other systems get their software and updates? If these systems are
located in different subnets or a WAN-connected location, it may be more efficient to
create a distributed repository that is more easily accessible to these systems.
Now we need to create a distributed repository for
update from there. Your test network, with only a few client systems and one ePolicy
Orchestrator server, is small enough to not require a distributed repository structure.
However, you can use the distributed repository examples in this guide to simulate a
probable real-world scenario. Such a scenario could include systems in remote domains
that cannot update efficiently over a WAN-connected master repository on the ePolicy
Orchestrator server.
You can use FTP , HTTP , or UNC to replicate data from the master repository to your
distributed repositories. This guide describes creating a UNC share distributed
repository on one of the systems in the
To do this:
1 Create a shared folder on the system to use as a
2 Add the distributed repository to the ePolicy Orchestrator
3 Replicate master repository data to distributed
4 Configure remote sites to use the distributed
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Create a shared folder on the system to use as a repository

Before you add the UNC distributed repository to ePolicy Orchestrator, you must first
create the folder to use. In addition, you must set the folder to enable sharing across
the network so that your ePolicy Orchestrator server can copy files to it.
To create a shared folder for a UNC distributed repository:
1 From the system on which you plan to host the repository, create a new folder using
Windows Explorer.
2 Right-click the folder and select
Sharing
3 On the tab, select
Container1
Container1
site.
repository.
repository.
repository.
Sharing
.
Share this folder
.
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Installing and setting up
Installing agent manually on client systems
so that those systems can
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