Deploying Software And Updates; Deployment Packages For Products And Updates - McAfee EPOLICY ORCHESTRATOR 4.5 Product Manual

Deploying Software and Updates

In addition to managing security products, ePolicy Orchestrator can deploy products to your
network systems. Use ePolicy Orchestrator to deploy products and their updates.
Are you deploying products for the first time?
When deploying products for the first time:
1 Configure pull and replication tasks.
2 Check in product and update packages to the master repository.
3 Configure deployment and update tasks.
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Deployment packages for products and updates

Product and update deployment
Checking in packages manually
Using the Product Deployment task to deploy products to managed systems
Deploying update packages automatically with global updating
Deploying update packages with pull and replication tasks
Configuring agent policies to use a distributed repository
Using local distributed repositories that are not managed
Checking in engine, DAT and ExtraDAT update packages manually
Updating managed systems regularly with a scheduled update task
Confirming that clients are using the latest DAT files
Evaluating new DATs and engines before distribution
Manually moving DAT and engine packages between branches
Deleting DAT or engine packages from the master repository
Deployment packages for products and updates
The ePolicy Orchestrator deployment infrastructure supports deploying products and components,
as well as updating both.
Each McAfee product that ePolicy Orchestrator can deploy provides a product deployment
package zip file. The zip file contains product installation files, which are compressed in a secure
format. ePolicy Orchestrator can deploy these packages to any of your managed systems, once
they are checked in to the master repository.
These zip files are used for both detection definition (DAT) and engine update packages.
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