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Use SuperAgents to wake up all agents on the network

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
the schedule of this task from
an hour after your replication task begins.
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.
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.
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
Note
guide does not cover SuperAgent repositories, however. Refer to the ePolicy
Orchestrator 3.6 Product Guide for information on SuperAgent repositories.
To enable global updating:
1 Convert an agent on each subnet into a
2 Enable global updating on ePolicy Orchestrator
Use SuperAgents to wake up all agents on the network
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