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Distributing Agents to Manage Systems
Installing the McAfee Agent
• To run the task with the default configuration displayed on the Actions and Schedule
tabs, click Save.
• To configure the Actions and Schedule tabs, click Next. The Actions page appears.
3 From the Actions drop-down menu, select Run Query.
4 From the Query drop-down menu, select one of these options, then click OK.
• System with high Sequence errors
• Systems with no recent Sequence errors
5 From the Sub-Actions drop-down menu, select one of these options, then click Next.
• Clear Agent GUID Sequence Error Count
• Move Agent GUID to Duplicate List and Delete systems
6 Set a schedule for running the task, then click Next.
7 Review your settings, then click Save.
Deploying the agent via push technology
Use this task to deploy agents to your Windows systems using ePolicy Orchestrator.
This method is recommended if large segments of your System Tree are already populated.
For example, if you created System Tree segments by importing domains or Active Directory
containers, and you chose not to deploy the agent during the import.
Before you begin
To use this method, these requirements must be met:
• Systems must already be added to the System Tree.
NOTE: If you have not yet created the System Tree, you can deploy the agent installation
package to systems at the same time that you add groups and systems to the System Tree.
However, McAfee does not recommend this procedure if you are importing large domains
or Active Directory containers. Those activities generate significant network traffic.
• The account specified must have local administrator privileges on all target systems. Domain
administrator rights are required on a system to access the default
The ePO server service requires access to this shared folder in order to install agents.
• The ePO server must be able to communicate with the desired systems.
Before beginning a large agent deployment, ping some targets by machine name to verify
that the server can communicate with a few systems in each segment of your network. If
the targeted systems respond to the ping, ePolicy Orchestrator can reach the segments.
NOTE: The ability to successfully use ping commands from the ePO server to managed
systems is not required for the agent to communicate with the server. It is, however, a
useful test to determine if you can deploy agents from the server.
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that this is true on a sample of target systems. This test also validates your administrator
credentials, because you cannot access remote
From the ePO server, click Start | Run, then type the path to the target system's
share, specifying either system name or IP address.
If the systems are properly connected over the network, and your credentials have sufficient
rights, and the
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share folder on target systems must be accessible from the ePO server. Verify
share folder is present, a Windows Explorer dialog box appears.
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shares without administrator rights.
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shared folder.
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