McAfee MANAGEMENT EDITION 2.5 Administrator's Manual page 236

Using Mirror and Linked Repositories
4. Right-click the name of the mirror repository, and choose Configure
5. Select the Console's connection to this resource is slow checkbox.
6. Click the Update this mirror externally checkbox if the share directory
7. Click OK to close the Repository Configuration dialog box, and then click
8. Create a new anti-virus domain and place all machines that are local to
9. Right-click the
10. Select the Upgrade Settings checkbox, and click the Upgrade tab.
11. Select the mirror repository from the drop-down list, and click OK.
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If you decide to set up anti-virus domains that do not cross LAN boundaries,
then you can set up filters on your WAN routers to prevent network traffic
activating the link. Such traffic occurs during scheduled scans, virus alerts,
and attempts to discover machines on the network (not to be confused with the
Discover right-click menu option).
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Mirror.
The Repository Configuration dialog box appears
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This prevents the Management Console from automatically checking the
status of the mirror repository when you select the Mirrors tab.
is to be updated using a user-specified alternate method and not
Management Edition. For example, you can use a batch file to copy files
from the master repository to a mirror repository.
OK to close the Repository dialog box.
the new mirror repository into the Members group. Assign a
Management Server that is in the same location (not one that is across the
WAN link from the other machines).
Members group, point to Manage Components, and
then click Component Configuration.
The Component Configuration dialog box appears.
IMPORTANT: If you set up a mirror repository using this procedure,
use the Batch Install method to upgrade these machines. If you have very
few machines to upgrade or install for the first time, you can instead use
the Push On Install method. However, do not use the Push On Install to
upgrade software in the mirror repository because you will actually
double the amount of WAN traffic (compared with not using a mirror
repository), rather than reducing it.
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