Product guide

Creating custom agent installation packages
Use this task to create a custom agent installation package.
If you use a distribution method other than ePolicy Orchestrator deployment capabilities (such
as login scripts or third-party deployment software), you can create a custom agent installation
package (FramePkg.exe or install.sh) with embedded administrator credentials. This is necessary
in a Windows environment if users do not have local administrator permissions. The user account
credentials you embed are used to install the agent.
NOTE: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and later do not allow embedded administrator
credentials until the package file name has been added to the exception list of the Windows
firewall.
Task
For option definitions, click ? in the interface.
1 Click Menu | Systems | System Tree. The System Tree page opens.
2 Click System Tree Actions, then select New Systems from the drop-down menu.
3 Next to How to add systems, select Create and download agent installation
package.
4 Deselect Use Credentials.
5 Select the appropriate operating system.
6 Type the appropriate Credentials for agent installation, then click OK.
7 When prompted, select the file to be downloaded. Click to open the file. Right-click to save
the file.
8 Distribute the custom installation package file as needed.
Installing the agent with login scripts
Use this Windows only task to set up and use network login scripts to install the agent on
Windows systems as they log on to the network.
Using network login scripts is a reliable method to make sure that every system logging on to
your network is running an agent. You can create a login script to call a batch file that checks
if the agent is installed on systems attempting to log on to the network. If no agent is present,
the batch file installs the agent before allowing the system to log on. Within 10 minutes of being
installed, the agent calls in to the server for updated policies and ePO tasks, and the system is
added to the System Tree.
This method is appropriate when:
• Domain names or sorting filters are assigned to the segments of your System Tree.
• You already have a managed environment and want to ensure that new systems logging
on to the network become managed as a result.
• You already have a managed environment and want to ensure that systems are running a
current version of the agent.
Before you begin
• McAfee recommends first creating segments of your System Tree that use either network
domain names or sorting filters that add the expected systems to the desired groups. If you
don’t, all systems are added to the Lost&Found group, and you must move them manually.
Installing the McAfee Agent
Methods of agent deployment and installation
17McAfee Agent software version 4.5 Product Guide