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2 Click Send Events. A record of the sending-events activity is added to the list of activities
in the Agent Status Monitor.
NOTE: This action sends all events to ePolicy Orchestrator irrespective of their severity.
Using the icon option to update
For the administrator to control what is updated and when, the Windows-only option for users
to Update Security is disabled by default. If you want to allow Windows users to update all
McAfee products on their managed systems, you must enable this functionality. See
Configuring
selected systems for updating
for more information. The icon cannot be used to update
applications selectively. The user can update all the items in the repository, or none of them.
When the user selects Update Security, all of the following items are updated with the contents
of the designated repository:
• Patch releases
• Legacy product plug-in (.DLL) files
• Service pack releases
• SuperDAT (SDAT*.EXE) packages
• Supplemental detection definition (ExtraDAT) files
• Detection definition (DAT) files
• Anti-virus engines
• Managed-product signatures
Forcing the agent to call in to the server
Use this Windows-only task to force the new agent to call in to the ePO server immediately.
You can do this from any system on which an agent has just been installed. This is useful after
installing the agent manually.
Task
1 On the system where you installed the agent, open a DOS command window by selecting
Start | Run, type cmd, and press Enter.
2 In the command window, navigate to the agent installation folder containing the
CmdAgent.exe file.
By default, this is C:\Program Files\McAfee\Common Framework.
3 Type this command:
CMDAGENT /p
4 Press Enter. The agent calls into the server immediately.
When the agent calls in to the server for the first time, the system is added to the System Tree
as a managed system. If you configured criteria-based sorting for the System Tree, the system
is added to the location appropriate for its IP address or tags. Otherwise, the system is added
to the Lost&Found group. Once the system is added to the System Tree, you can manage its
policies through ePolicy Orchestrator.
Running agent tasks from the managed system
Using the icon option to update
45McAfee Agent software version 4.5 Product Guide