Distributing Agents To Manage Systems - McAfee EPOLICY ORCHESTRATOR 4.0.2 Product Manual

Distributing Agents to Manage Systems

Managing your network systems effectively is dependent on each system running an active,
up-to-date agent.
There are several methods to distribute the agent. The ones you use depend on:
• The realities of your environment.
• Whether you are upgrading agents or distributing them for the first time.
Are you distributing agents for the first time?
When deploying agents throughout your environment for the first time:
1 Review the information in this chapter to understand the agent, its policies and tasks, and
the methods to distribute it.
2 Configure agent policy settings for the System Tree groups to which you are distributing
agents.
3 Distribute agents with the chosen methods to the desired locations.
Contents
Agents and SuperAgents
Agent-server communication
Agent activity logs
Agent policy settings
Security Keys
Methods of agent distribution
Creating custom agent installation packages
Distributing agents
Forcing the agent to call in to the server
Upgrading existing agents
Removing the agent
Maintaining the agent
Agent command-line options
Agent installation command-line options
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