Installing Agent Manually On Client Systems - McAfee EPOLICY ORCHESTRATOR 3.6 - WALKTHROUGH GUIDE Manual

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ePolicy Orchestrator 3.6 Walkthrough Guide

Installing agent manually on client systems

Rather than use ePolicy Orchestrator to deploy the agent, you may want to install it
manually at the client system. Some administrators may want to install software on
client systems manually and use ePolicy Orchestrator to manage policies only. Or,
maybe you have many Windows 95 or Windows 98 client systems and do not want to
enable print and file sharing on them. In these cases, you can install the agent at the
client instead.
Use the . file located on your ePolicy Orchestrator server to install the
FRAMEPKG EXE
agent. The . file is automatically created when you install the ePolicy
FRAMEPKG EXE
Orchestrator server. It contains address information for your ePolicy Orchestrator
server to allow the new agent to communicate with the server immediately.
By default, . is located in the following folder on your ePolicy Orchestrator
FRAMEPKG EXE
server:
C:\Program Files\Mcafee\ePO\3.6.0\DB\Software\Current\
EPOAGENT3000\Install\0409
To install the agent manually:
1 Copy the file to the local client or network folder accessible from the
FRAMEPKG.EXE
client.
2 Run by double-clicking it. Wait a few moments while the agent
FRAMEPKG.EXE
installs.
At some random interval within ten minutes, the agent reports back to the ePolicy
Orchestrator server for the first time. At this point, the system is added to the Directory
as a managed system. If you specified IP address filtering for your Directory sites and
groups, the client is added to the appropriate site or group for its IP address. Otherwise,
the system is added to the Lost&Found group. Once the system is added to the
Directory, you can manage its policies through the ePolicy Orchestrator console.
You can bypass the ten-minute callback interval and force the new agent to call back to
the server immediately. You do this from any system on which an agent has just been
installed.
To manually force the initial agent callback:
1 From the client system where you just installed the agent, open a DOS command
Start
window by selecting
2 In the command window, navigate to the agent installation folder containing the
. file.
CMDAGENT EXE
3 Type the following command (note the spaces between command line options):
CMDAGENT /p /e /c
4 Press ENTER. The agent calls into the ePolicy Orchestrator server immediately.
5 From the ePolicy Orchestrator console on your server, refresh the Directory by
pressing F5. The new client system on which you installed the agent should now
appear in your Directory.
Run
| , type , and press
command
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