McAfee EPOLICY ORCHESTRATOR 3.6 - WALKTHROUGH GUIDE Manual page 110

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ePolicy Orchestrator 3.6 Walkthrough Guide
Once VirusScan Enterprise is installed, however, update DAT files frequently. Your
anti-virus software is only as good as its latest DAT files, so it is essential to keep them
up-to-date. In a later section in this guide, you will see how to schedule a regular
automatic client update task to occur regularly, such as daily or weekly. For now, let's
assume you want to initiate an immediate DAT file update. You will likely be required to
do this at some point; for example, if McAfee releases updated DAT files in response
to a newly-discovered virus and you want your client systems to update without waiting
for their regularly scheduled task.
To do this, create and run a client update task from your ePolicy Orchestrator console.
This forces all your client anti-virus software to perform an update task.
Before you run a client update task, make sure you have first pulled any updated DAT
or engine files into your master and distributed repositories, if you have them. See
up master and distributed repositories on page
Note
To create and run a client update task:
1 In the console tree, right-click
Schedule Task
2 In the dialog box, type a name into the
Update client DATs
.
3 In the software list, select
OK
4 Click .
Tasks
5 Go to the tab in the details pane, then press
make the new task appear in the list on the
Note that it is scheduled to run daily at the current day and time. Also note that the
Enabled False
flag is set to
6 Right-click the new task in the task list and select
Inherit
7 Deselect under the
dialog box.
Figure 8-11 ePolicy Orchestrator Scheduler dialog box
95.
Directory | All Tasks | Schedule task
New Task Name
ePolicy Orchestrator Agent | Update
F5
Task
tab.
—we now need to set this to
Edit Task
Schedule Settings
section of the
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Set
.
field, such as
for the task type.
to refresh the console and
True
and run it immediately.
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ePolicy Orchestrator Scheduler
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