Replicate Master Repository Data To Distributed Repository; Configure Remote Sites To Use The Distributed Repository - McAfee EPOLICY ORCHESTRATOR 3.6 - WALKTHROUGH GUIDE Manual

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ePolicy Orchestrator 3.6 Walkthrough Guide
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Replicate master repository data to distributed repository

Now you have created a UNC share on a system to host a distributed repository, and
added the repository location to your ePolicy Orchestrator database. Now, all that is
missing in the new repository is data. If you browse to your share folder you created,
you can see that it is still empty.
Replicate now
Use the feature to manually update your distributed repositories with the
latest contents from your master repository. Later, we'll schedule a replication task so
this happens automatically.
To initiate replication manually:
1 In the console tree, select
Replicate now
2 In the details pane, click
Next
3 Click .
4 From the list of available distributed repositories, select the distributed repository
you have created, then click
Incremental replication
5 Select
Because this is a new distributed repository, and this is the first time you are
replicating to it, you could also select
it is recommended to use incremental replication to save time and bandwidth.
Finish
6 Click to begin replication. The Server Task Log appears.
7 Monitor the status of the task until it completes.
If you browse to your
ePOShare
for agents and software.
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Configure remote sites to use the distributed repository

Since you have created a distributed repository, why not make sure it gets used? Your
test network is too small to really require distributed repositories. But for the sake of
simulating how they work, we can configure your updating to force systems in one site
to update only from the distributed repository instead of the master.
To simulate this in your test, let's configure the agent policies for one of the sites to use
only the new distributed repository. In our example network used in this guide, this is
Container1
the site, which is where the system hosting your newly-created distributed
repository resides.
To configure the ePolicy Orchestrator agent policy for the
distributed repository for updating:
1 In the console tree, select the site whose systems that you want to use the
distributed repository.
2 In the details pane, select the
products.
Edit
3 Click at the right end of the
New Policy
4 Select from the
appears.
Repository
.
Replicate Now
. The
Next
.
.
Full replication
. However, for future replications,
folder now, you can see that it now contains subfolders
Policies ePO Agent 3.5.0
tab, then open
Configuration
row.
Policy Name
drop-down list. The
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Installing and setting up
Installing agent manually on client systems
wizard appears.
Container1
site to use the
from the list of
Create new policy
dialog box
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