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Release Notes for McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5
About this document
New features
Known Issues
Installation, upgrade, and migration considerations
Considerations when uninstalling ePolicy Orchestrator
Other information
Finding documentation for McAfee enterprise products
License attributions
About this document
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information about this release. We strongly recommend that you read the entire document.
CAUTION: McAfee does not support automatic upgrading of a pre-release version of this software. If you are
running any previously released version of the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 software in your environment, you
must uninstall before installing this version of the software.
NOTE: SQL 2000 is not supported in ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5. Users must use SQL 2005 or SQL 2008.
New features
New and enhanced features in the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 release are described below:
Scalability
Custom data channel
Improved security for agent-server communication
Move agents between servers
Navigation redesign
Drag-and-drop
Policy Assignment Rules
Automatic Responses
IPv6 support
LDAP support
Issues and ticketing
Multi-server rollup reporting improvements
Queries system improvements
Rogue System Detection improvements
Searchable Help
Scalability
The ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 software supports enhanced scalability through the use of remote Agent Handlers.
Agent Handlers can be installed on the servers where agents connect to retrieve policies, client actions, and
updates. Agents can also use Agent Handlers to send properties and events to your primary ePO server.
Support of multiple Agent Handlers enables one ePO server to manage a larger set of installed products on a larger
set of managed systems. Agent Handlers can be deployed to strategic points in your network environment,
enabling management of systems that cannot access the main ePO server directly. They can also be used in
locations where the ePO server can be accessed directly.
Custom data channel
The custom data channel is a bi-directional channel for sending product-specific data between ePolicy Orchestrator
and the products on your managed systems. This feature allows McAfee to provide UI actions, which are used when
troubleshooting with real-time feedback. These actions are designed to operate on a single system, while providing
real-time status to your ePO administrators. The Update Now command, which allows you to update a managed
system on demand, is an example of this feature.
Improved security for agent-server communication
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Summary of Contents for McAfee EPOLICY ORCHESTRATOR 4.5 - RELEASE NOTES
- Page 1 The custom data channel is a bi-directional channel for sending product-specific data between ePolicy Orchestrator and the products on your managed systems. This feature allows McAfee to provide UI actions, which are used when troubleshooting with real-time feedback. These actions are designed to operate on a single system, while providing real-time status to your ePO administrators.
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Page 2: Drag And Drop
You can include individual users, groups, and Organizational Units (OUs) in a rule. You can also exclude specific users from a rule. McAfee SiteAdvisor Enterprise 3.0 is the first managed product to leverage this feature. -
Page 3: Known Issues
ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 provides basic issues management and bi-directional integration with these third-party ticketing systems: Service Desk Remedy Multi-server rollup reporting improvements The multi-server rollup reporting feature has been enhanced. You can now filter out unwanted items before performing a data rollup. New rollup reporting targets have been added, including policy assignments, and specific policy use across your network. -
Page 4: Browser Issues
server and SQL user names and passwords. (441204) When the SQL Server "Nested Triggers" option is disabled, policies assignment time stamps are not updated. This causes ePolicy Orchestrator to fail to deliver full policies to client systems. To work around this issue, verify that "Nested Triggers"... -
Page 5: Other Issues
4.0 are not supported or migrated to version 4.5 of the ePolicy Orchestrator software. Before upgrading to version 4.5, McAfee recommends that you note the settings and purpose of your 4.0 notifications, so that you can set up the Automatic Response system based on your 4.0 notifications notes. -
Page 6: Migration Considerations
Uninstall ePolicy Orchestrator 3.6.1. NOTE: McAfee recommends that you disconnect the Data drive from each node in order to make sure that no files are deleted from the Data drive. Install version 4.5 of the software as documented in the ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 Installation Guide and ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 Cluster Installation Guide. -
Page 7: Other Information
This software automatically installs the product extensions for McAfee Agent 4.5 and VirusScan Enterprise 8.7, along with their respective Help files. If you optionally choose to install the McAfee Agent 4.0 or VirusScan Enterprise 8.5 product extensions, you must install their Help separately. These files are included in the ePolicy Orchestrator software zip file in the extensions-help folder. -
Page 8: Finding Documentation For Mcafee Enterprise Products
No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form or by any means without the written permission of McAfee, Inc., or its suppliers or affiliate companies. - Page 9 SOFTWARE PACKAGE). IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS SET FORTH IN THE AGREEMENT, DO NOT INSTALL THE SOFTWARE. IF APPLICABLE, YOU MAY RETURN THE PRODUCT TO MCAFEE OR THE PLACE OF PURCHASE FOR A FULL REFUND.