Sending Manual Wake-Up Calls To Systems; Sending Manual Wake-Up Calls To A Group - McAfee EPOLICY ORCHESTRATOR 4.5 Product Manual

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Sending manual wake-up calls to systems

Use this task to manually send an agent or SuperAgent wake-up call to systems in the System
Tree. This is useful when you make policy changes and you want agents to call in for an update
before the next agent-server communication.
Before you begin
Before sending the agent wake-up call to systems, make sure that Enable agent wake-up
call support is enabled and applied on the General tab of the McAfee Agent policy pages. It
is enabled by default.
Task
For option definitions, click ? in the interface.
1 Click Menu | Systems | System Tree, then select the group that contains the target
systems.
2 Select the systems from the list, then from the Actions drop-down menu, select Agent,
then select Wake Up Agents from the submenu. The Wake Up McAfee Agent page
appears.
3 Ensure that the systems you selected appear in the Target section.
4 Next to Wake-up call type, select whether to send an Agent Wake-Up Call or
SuperAgent Wake-Up Call.
5 Accept the default Randomization (0 - 60 minutes) or type a different value. Consider
the number of systems that are receiving the wake-up call, and how much bandwidth is
available. If you type
6 During regular communication, the agent sends only properties that have changed since
the last agent-server communication. This task is set by default to Get full product
properties. To send the complete properties as a result of this wake-up call, ensure that
this is option selected.
7 Click OK to send the agent or SuperAgent wake-up call.

Sending manual wake-up calls to a group

Use this task to manually send an agent or SuperAgent wake-up call to a System Tree group.
This is useful when you have made policy changes and want agents to call in for an update.
Before you begin
Make sure that wake-up support for the targeted group is enabled and applied on the General
tab of the McAfee Agent policy pages. It is enabled by default.
Task
For option definitions, click ? in the interface.
1 Click Menu | Systems | System Tree.
2 Click Group Details, then select the target group from the System Tree.
3 From the Actions drop-down menu, select Wake Up Agents. The Wake Up McAfee Agent
page appears.
4 Verify that the group appears next to Target group.
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