McAfee MANAGEMENT EDITION 2.5 Administrator's Manual page 146

Updating Your Anti-virus Software
3. Use the arrow buttons to set the number of member machines you want
You can also set the number of simultaneous updates in the [Configuration]
section of DEMON.INI, which the Update Manager will read on the fly:
[Configuration]
MaxBatchLoad=10
The number of active updates at any given time will not exceed this value. The
Update Manager considers updates to be active if the update has been sent,
but the Update Agent has not yet written back to the upgrades share directory.
Active updates show a cog icon
Successfully." When the Update Agent writes to the share, the update shows a
green check mark icon
successfully," and is no longer considered active.
The viewer keeps count of the number of active updates in its status bar. If the
Update Agent does not write the results of the upgrade to the mirror within
the timeout period, the update is marked as failed (showing a red cross icon
and the message "The update agent did not access the repository mirror")
and is no longer considered active.
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Viewing the batch update status
After the Update Manager has successfully sent an upgrade collection, it
marks the upgrade as successful with a green check mark icon
Agent writes back to the upgrade share within a default 10-minute timeout
period. You can set the timeout period (in seconds) in the [Configuration]
section of DEMON.INI, which the Update Manager will read on the fly:
[Configuration]
TimeBeforeUpgradeFails=120
If the Update Agent fails to access the share within the timeout period, a red
cross icon
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to update simultaneously. You can set a number from 1 to 500.
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NOTE: If you are performing a batch update from a local
Windows NT repository, you are limited to ten concurrent
connections. See
machines or fewer" on page
NOTE: The Update Manager does not consider an update to be active
while it is retrying the send, so batch updates won't get stuck on a couple
of machines that are not turned on.
appears in the Completed Updates tab in the right pane.
"Option 3: Local machine/local machine – ten
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and the message "Update Sent
and the message "Update sent and agent started
if the Update