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Deploying the Agent and Products
Once the ePolicy Orchestrator server and consoles are installed, you must deploy
certain core components and security products in order to manage your systems.
ePolicy Orchestrator agent
The agent is the distributed component of ePolicy Orchestrator that must be installed
on each system in your network that you want to manage. SuperAgents are agents that
have been enabled to distribute broadcast wakeup calls. SuperAgents can also be used
as repositories from which to distribute products and product updates.
The agent collects and sends information among the server, update repositories,
managed systems, and products. Systems cannot be managed without an installed
agent.
Due to the variety of network environments, McAfee provides several methods for you
to get the agent on to the systems you want to manage.
About the ePolicy Orchestrator agent
Consider the following topics when planning to distribute agents:
Agent installation folder on page
Agent language packages on page
The agent installation package on page
Agent-server communication on page
SuperAgents and broadcast wakeup calls on page
Agent installation folder
The location of the agent installation folder depends on whether the agent is located
on managed systems or the server.
On the server, the agent is installed in this location:
<system_drive>\program files\common files\mcafee\common framework
On the client system, if the agent was installed as part of another product
installation or deployed from the console to the system, it is installed by default in
this location:
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