Specifications

Contents
1 Preface 7
About this guide ..................................7
Audience ..................................7
Conventions .................................7
What's in this guide ..............................7
Finding product documentation ............................8
1 History of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator software 9
2 ePolicy Orchestrator product architecture 11
Architecture overview ................................11
Hardware configuration ...............................13
Configuration of McAfee ePO server and SQL Server on the same physical server .....13
Use VMs for the McAfee ePO Server .......................14
Share the SQL database hardware ........................14
Hard disk configuration ...............................14
SAN usage ....................................17
Determining the server hardware needed ........................17
3 Repositories 21
Repositories overview ................................21
FTP repositories ..................................22
HTTP repositories ..................................22
UNC share repositories ............................... 22
SuperAgent repositories ...............................23
Creating a new SuperAgent policy ........................24
Creating a new group in the System Tree .....................24
Assigning the new SuperAgents policy to the new SuperAgents group .........25
Dragging a system into the new SuperAgents group ................26
Place repositories .................................27
Calculating bandwidth of repository replication ......................28
Calculating bandwidth for client pulls of updates .....................28
Determine repository count ............................. 29
Global updates ...................................32
4 Agent Handlers 35
Agent Handlers overview .............................. 35
5 Installation and upgrade of ePolicy Orchestrator software 37
Install new software ................................37
Upgrade the software ................................37
Move the server ..................................39
Move McAfee Agents between servers .........................40
Using Transfer Systems ............................41
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