Specifications

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Create the folder
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Adjust share permissions
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Change the NTFS permissions
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Create two accounts, one with read and another with write access
All of these tasks increase the chance of failure since these processes must be completed manually
risking human errors. Your agents might not properly update if your agents cannot authenticate to
your UNC share because they are not part of the domain or the credentials are incorrect
SuperAgent repositories
A SuperAgent is a way of creating a McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator repository. The advantage of a
SuperAgent is that it is created with the McAfee ePO server and the McAfee Agent.
Using a McAfee SuperAgent reduces the chance of error because you don’t rely on other protocols.
Also, the process is less prone to human error because there is minimal data entry, no shares to
create beforehand, and no user permissions to adjust. A SuperAgent simply uses any existing McAfee
Agent in your environment and does not require any additional software other than the agent itself.
For example, if you have 20,000 McAfee Agents you can easily choose a few to designate as
SuperAgents via policy.
SuperAgents have these advantages:
• Any machine running a McAfee Agent can be designated as a SuperAgent just by changing its policy.
• You don’t have to connect to the machine to create any shares, set up permissions, or rely on any
Microsoft technology such as UNC shares.
• You don’t have to open ports to enable the SuperAgent functionality. The SuperAgent needs only
one open port, the agent wake-up call port you already defined for all your agents (8081 is the
default port).
• You don’t have to replicate credentials to SuperAgents. Since your McAfee ePO server is instantly
aware of your SuperAgents, it manages replication and adjusts which SuperAgent your clients
choose to use for their downloads.
To create a SuperAgent requires these four general tasks. See McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 Product
Guide for detailed configuration steps.
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Create a new SuperAgents policy.
2
Create a new group in the System Tree, for example named SuperAgents.
3
Assign the new SuperAgents policy to the new SuperAgents group.
4
Drag a system into the new "SuperAgents" group.
Once you have created the new "SuperAgents" group you can drag any
system into that group and it become a SuperAgents the next time it
communicates with the McAfee ePO server.
The following sections describe this process.
Repositories
SuperAgent repositories
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