Specifications

6 McAfee Agent 43
Agent functionality .................................43
Deploying agents ..................................44
Deploy from the McAfee ePO server .......................46
Synchronize with Active Directory ........................46
Deploy the agent using third-party tools .....................47
Make the agent part of your image .......................48
7 Organizing your System Tree 51
Your System Tree .................................51
Use Active Directory synchronization ......................... 51
Dynamically sorting your machines ..........................52
8 Policies and packages 55
Manage policies ..................................55
McAfee agent policy .................................56
Agent to server communication interval (ASCI) ...................56
Configuring the policy enforcement interval ....................59
Deploying packages ................................60
9 Client tasks 63
Deploy products ..................................63
Configuring which products are deployed .....................64
Schedule product deployment with randomization .................64
Updating products .................................65
10 Server tasks 69
Perform an action on a query ............................ 69
Creating a server task ............................70
Creating an automatic report email or export ......................71
Create an automatic content pull and replication .....................72
Disabling master repository client pulls ..................... 73
Purge events automatically ..............................74
Creating a purge events by query server task ...................74
Purging events by query .............................. 76
Deleting inactive systems automatically .........................77
11 Reporting 81
Reporting overview .................................81
Custom queries ..................................82
Creating custom event queries .........................84
Event summary queries ............................88
Creating custom table queries .........................95
12 FAQ and common scenarios 99
Determining if you have a duplicate GUID problem ....................99
Determining if your server has performance problems ..................100
Understand product version numbers .........................102
Determining the best upgrade strategy ........................103
1051 and 1059 events ...............................103
Filtering 1051 and 1059 events ........................104
13 SQL maintenance 105
ePolicy Orchestrator SQL database maintenance ....................105
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