McAfee EPOLICY ORCHESTRATOR 3.6 - WALKTHROUGH GUIDE Manual page 39

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ePolicy Orchestrator 3.6 Walkthrough Guide
For information and instruction, see
Systems in the product guide.
If you have not yet created the Directory, you can send the agent installation package
to systems at the same time that you are adding sites, groups, and systems to the
Note
Directory.
However, McAfee does not recommend this procedure if you are creating your
Directory by importing large NT domains or Active Directory containers. This can
generate too much network traffic.
Specify domain administrator credentials.
Domain administrator rights are required to access the default
on the desired systems. The ePolicy Orchestrator server service requires access to
this shared folder in order to install agents and other software.
Verify the ePolicy Orchestrator server can communicate with the desired systems.
Before beginning a large agent deployment, use ping commands to verify that the
server can communicate with a few systems in each segment of your network to
which you want to deploy agents.
If the targeted systems respond to the ping, then ePolicy Orchestrator can
communicate with them.
The ability to successfully use ping commands from the ePolicy Orchestrator to the
managed systems is not required for the agent to communicate with the server after
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the agent is installed. This is only a useful test for determining if you can deploy
agents from the server to them.
Verify that the share folders on the desired systems are accessible from the
Admin$
server.
This test also confirms your administrator credentials, because you cannot access
remote shares without administrator rights.
Admin$
To access shares on desired systems from the ePolicy Orchestrator server:
Admin$
Start Run
a Select | .
b Type the path to the client
IP address.
If the systems are properly connected over the network, your credentials have
sufficient rights, and the
Admin$
Explorer
dialog box.
Ensure file and print sharing is enabled. (This is disabled by default on Windows 95,
Windows 98, and Windows ME systems.)
In addition, if you have systems in your network running these operating systems,
you must make sure they can be managed by ePolicy Orchestrator. By default,
these systems do not allow ePolicy Orchestrator administration. To enable these
systems for ePolicy Orchestrator administration, download
1.3 updates from the Microsoft web site and install them on each client as required.
Ensure network access is enabled on Windows XP Home systems.
Chapter 3, Creating a Directory of Managed
$ share by specifying either the system name or
Admin
shared folder is present, you should see a
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Distributing agents
shared folder
Admin$
Windows
. and
VCREDIST EXE DCOM
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