Convert An Agent On Each Subnet Into A Superagent - McAfee EPOLICY ORCHESTRATOR 3.6 - WALKTHROUGH GUIDE Manual

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ePolicy Orchestrator 3.6 Walkthrough Guide
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Convert an agent on each subnet into a SuperAgent

You can turn any regular ePolicy Orchestrator agent into a SuperAgent. Use the ePolicy
Orchestrator Agent policy pages to do this. Since you only need one SuperAgent per
network subnet, be sure to configure SuperAgents for individual systems in your
Directory, and not for whole groups or sites as you did when deploying agents or
VirusScan Enterprise.
For example, in the sample test network used in this guide, we would convert one
agent into a SuperAgent in the
To do this:
1 In the console tree, select a desired system to host the SuperAgent. In a production
environment, you would want to select a system that is likely to be up and running
all the time.
2 In the details pane, open
Edit
3 Click at the right end of the
New Policy
4 Select from the
appears.
Duplicate the following policy
5 Select
the agent system tray icon) from the drop-down list.
New policy name
6 Provide a for the policy (for example,
OK Policy Settings
. The dialog box appears.
General
7 On the tab, select
Apply All Close
8 Click , then click
Apply
9 Click at the end of the
new policy to the site selected in the console tree.
You can also create a SuperAgent repository on the system, but they are not
required for global updating and are not covered in this guide. See the ePolicy
Orchestrator 3.6 Product Guide for information on SuperAgent repositories.
Apply All
10 Click to save the policy changes.
11 Right-click the system in the
Agent Randomization
12 Set to
13 Repeat these steps if you have systems in other network subnets.
Wait a few moments while the SuperAgent is created.
You can use these SuperAgents to wake up other agents in the local subnet. This can
save bandwidth, especially in a large network with many remote, WAN-connected
sites. Send out wakeup calls to a few SuperAgents and let them wake up the other
agents in the local LAN.
Use SuperAgents to wake up all agents on the network
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site.
ePO Agent 3.5.0
.
Configuration
row.
Policy Name
drop-down list. The
, then select the policy you created earlier (to display
SuperAgent Policy
Enable SuperAgent functionality
.
Configuration Assign Policies
row on the
Directory Agent Wakeup Call
and select
0 OK
and click .
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Installing and setting up
Create new policy
dialog box
), then click
.
page to assign the
.
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