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McAfee ePO Advanced Suite Installer Product Guide
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The ePolicy Orchestrator software repository
The McAfee ePO server is the central software repository for all McAfee product installations, updates,
and other content. The modular design of ePolicy Orchestrator allows new products to be added as
extensions. This includes new or updated versions of McAfee products, such as VirusScan Enterprise, and
non-McAfee products from McAfee partners. Packages are components that are checked in to the master
repository, and then deployed to client systems. ePolicy Orchestrator also allows for replication to
distributed repositories at remote locations.
For McAfee ePO to keep your client systems up-to-date, a repository task that retrieves updates from a
McAfee site (HTTP or FTP) was created to run daily at 1:00 am. The steps below show you how to
modify the task so that it checks the McAfee update site every 12 hours.
Note that you can set any schedule you desire. There are generally two approaches — the standard
approach similar to that described above, and a more advanced methodology to use if you are required
to test signatures (DATs) on a subset of your systems prior to deployment to the remainder of your
population. The standard approach is appropriate for most evaluations. Information on the advanced
approach is detailed in the white paper
Validating DAT and Other Content Files with McAfee ePolicy
Orchestrator located on the McAfee Customer Portal.
Proxy configuration
NOTE: If you use a proxy server in your network environment, you will need to specify the configuration
in the ePolicy Orchestrator Server Settings, so it can retrieve client updates and other content. If no
proxy settings are required, skip to the following task, entitled Edit the repository pull task.
Configuring proxy settings
1 Click Menu | Configuration | Server Settings, select Proxy Settings from the Setting Categories,
and then click Edit.
2 Select Configure the proxy settings manually, provide the specific configuration information your
proxy server uses for each set of options, then click Save.
Editing the repository pull task
Follow the directions below to edit the default pull task so that ePolicy Orchestrator checks for updates
every 12 hours. This is an example. You can set the schedule as required.
1 Click Menu | Automation | Server Tasks.
2 In the list, find the task named Update Master Repository and, under the Actions column, click Edit
to open the Server Task Builder.
3 On the Description page, make sure Schedule status is set to Enabled, then click Next.
4 Select Move existing packages to Previous branch, then click Next.
NOTE: Checking this option allows ePolicy Orchestrator to maintain more than one set of signature files.
When the task runs next, the current updates are moved to a directory on the server called Previous.
This allows you to roll back updates if necessary.
5 On the Schedule page, choose when you want ePolicy Orchestrator to check the McAfee site for
updates.
• Schedule the task to run Hourly, with No End Date.
• Set Schedule to every 12 hours.
6 Click Next.
7 On the Summary page, click Save. The console returns to the Server Tasks page.