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Distributing Agents to Manage Systems
Installing the McAfee Agent
users to run the installation program themselves. If you want users (who have local administrator
rights) to install the agent on their own systems, distribute the agent installation package file
to them. You can attach it to an email message, copy it to media, or save it to a shared network
folder.
After the agent is installed, it calls in to the server and adds the new system to the System
Tree.
Task
For option definitions, click ? in the interface.
1 Distribute the agent installation package to the target system.
2 Double-click FramePkg.exe and wait a few moments while the agent is installed. Within
ten minutes, the agent calls in to the ePO server for the first time.
3 As needed, bypass the ten-minute interval by forcing the agent to call. Use this command:
CMDAGENT /p
Installing on UNIX-based operating systems
Use this task to install the agent on AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris systems. The
agent extension must be installed on the ePO server before the agent is installed on any target
systems.
Before you begin
• You must have root privileges on the UNIX-based system to complete this task
Task
1 Download ePOAgentMeta.zip to a temporary location on the ePO server.
2 Open the ePOAgentMeta.zip and extract the agent package for the target operating system.
Operating system
HP-UX
Linux
Macintosh
Solaris
AIX
3 Install the agent extension on the ePO server.
a Click Menu | Software | Extensions, then click Install extension.
b Browse to the location containing ePOAgentMeta.zip, select it and click OK. The
Install Extensions summary page appears.
c Click OK to complete the installation of the extension.
4 Check in the agent package to one of the repository branches, Current (default), Previous,
or Evaluation.
TIP: The path includes the name of the selected repository. For example, if checked in to
the Current branch of the ePO software repository, the path of the required files is:
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 Product Guide
File name
MA450HPX.zip
MA450LNX.zip
MA450MAC.zip
MA450SLR.zip
MA450AIX.zip
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