User Guide

Administrator’s Guide 51
Updating and Mirroring Tasks
Configuring the AutoUpdate and Mirroring tasks
Many of the steps for configuring the two tasks are identical, and others are
similar. The order in which you configure the two tasks is irrelevant.
Therefore, the two procedures are described simultaneously. Where the two
procedures differ, they are clearly distinguished.
IMPORTANT:Yourconfigurationsettingsapplytothetarget(group,or
computer) that is selected in the ePolicy Orchestrator console tree.
AutoUpdate Mirroring
Target
This task applies to a domain, and affects
all computers in the selected domain that
have McAfee VirusScan TC installed. Any
computer in the domain can AutoUpdate
its .DAT files.
Thistask applies to a server thatyouselect
asthesourceforupdatefiles.Any
computer that can “see” the mirror folder
can receive its updates.
Function
Pullstheupdatefilesfromapre-defined
server to the workstation. The server can
be the Network Associates FTP update
site, or a mirror server on your network
thatreplicatesthecontents oftheNetwork
Associates FTP update site.
Replicates the files on the Network
AssociatesFTP update siteonone ormore
servers, or from one local server to
another.
Configuration
Creates a list of servers where your client
computers can pull the update files that
the VirusScan TC program uses to detect
viruses.
Defines a location that contains an image
of the contents of the Network Associates
FTP update site.
Results
A location, preferably nearby, is defined
whereyour computers can pull update
files. The .DAT files and engine files on
theclientcomputerareupdated.
A location, preferably nearby, is defined
as a mirror image of the Network
Associates FTP update site, and is
available to your computers. .DAT files
aremadeavailableforupdatetasks