Configure The Agent Policy Settings Before Deployment - McAfee EPOLICY ORCHESTRATOR 3.6 - WALKTHROUGH GUIDE Manual

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Configure the agent policy settings before deployment

From the Directory in the console tree, you can install the agent on each system in a
site at once. To do this, send an agent install command to the site. Because of
inheritance, you can specify an agent installation at the parent site (or group) level and
all child nodes inherit the command.
Initiate separate agent installations to separate sites of your Directory. These two agent
installation commands install the agent to all systems in these sites.
To deploy agents to a site:
1 Configure the agent policy settings before
2 Deploy agents.
Alternatively, if you do not plan to use ePolicy Orchestrator to deploy the agent, you can
install the agent manually from the client system. See
client systems on page 94.
You can deploy agents with the default policy settings. However, for testing purposes,
modify the policy settings to allow the agent tray icon to display in the Windows system
tray on the client system. Not only will this expose you to setting agent policies, it also
makes it easier to see when the agent has installed on your client systems. When you
make this policy change at the site level, it applies to all test systems within this site.
This allows you to configure the policy settings once then deploy it to all your systems
within a site.
To change the agent policy settings so that the agent icon appears in the system
tray after installation:
1 In the console tree, select the desired site.
2 In the details pane, select the
products.
Edit
3 Click at the right end of the
New Policy
4 Select from the
appears.
New policy name
5 Provide a
OK Policy Settings
. The dialog box appears.
deployment.
Installing agent manually on
Policies
tab, then open
Configuration
row.
Policy Name
drop-down list. The
for the policy (for example,
New Agent Policy
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Installing and setting up
ePO Agent 3.5.0
from the list of
Create new policy
dialog box
), then click
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