Deploying The Agent From Epolicy Orchestrator - McAfee EPOLICY ORCHESTRATOR 3.6 - WALKTHROUGH GUIDE Manual

®
ePolicy Orchestrator 3.6 Walkthrough Guide

Deploying the agent from ePolicy Orchestrator

Table 4-2 Advantages and disadvantages of agent distribution methods
Method Advantages
Installing manually This is an efficient method if you
are not using ePolicy
Orchestrator to deploy the agent,
or if you have many Windows 95
and Windows 98 systems and do
not want to enable file and print
sharing on them.
Including the Installing the agent as part of an
agent on an image image prevents the bandwidth
impact that other forms of
distribution can incur. This
method also reduces the
overhead by integrating the task
into another one that must occur.
Enabling the agent Enabling an agent that is already
on unmanaged on the client system rather than
McAfee products deploying the 1.5MB package,
can save significant bandwidth
and time.
Deploying the agent from ePolicy Orchestrator
Installing the agent with login scripts
Installing the agent manually
Enabling the agent on unmanaged McAfee products
Including the agent on an image
Distributing the agent using other deployment products
Distributing the agent to WebShield appliances and Novell NetWare servers
You can use ePolicy Orchestrator to deploy agents to your systems. This method uses
Windows NT push technology.
When to use this method
This is a desirable method to install agents if you already have large sections of your
Directory populated. This is an efficient method if you were able to build Directory
segments by importing domains or Active Directory containers.
Requirements
To use this method, several requirements must be met, including:
Systems to which you want to deploy the agent must already be added to the
Directory.
Disadvantages
This is not a time-efficient method if
you have many systems.
If you do not use images
consistently, this method would not
be efficient to ensure coverage.
The disabled agent may be
out-of-date and require you run the
deployment task to upgrade the
agent to the current release.
You cannot change the agent
installation folder without uninstalling
and reinstalling the agent — agents
that you enable may be located in a
different folder than agents that you
deploy in your network by some
other method.
35
Deploying the Agent and Products
Distributing agents
4