Specifications
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Configure an email report.
• Click Run Query from the Actions list.
• Click Managed Inactive Agents query from the Query list dialog that appears, then click OK.
• Create a subaction that emails the file as a PDF file to your selected recipients, then click Next.
• Choose the custom or preconfigured query that you want to email and enter the email address
where you want the email sent. Choose the format you would like for the reports. Optionally,
you can zip your files to reduce their size.
You can chain additional Actions under one task by using the plus sign
on the far right of the server task. This lets you send multiple queries
under one server task instead of having to build multiple server tasks.
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Schedule when the server task should run. For example, on a busy ePO server make sure you run
this task during off hours, either nightly or weekly.
Create an automatic content pull and replication
One of the most important functions that your McAfee ePO server performs daily is pulling content
from the public McAfee servers. This keeps your protection signatures up to date for McAfee products
like VirusScan Enterprise and Host Intrusion Prevention System.
The primary steps are:
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Pull content from McAfee into your master repository, which is always the McAfee ePO server.
2
Replicate that content to your distributed repositories. This ensures multiple copies of the content
is available and remains synchronized. This allows clients to update their content from their nearest
repository.
The most important content is the DAT files for VirusScan Enterprise released daily at approximately
11 a.m. Eastern Time.
Optionally, many users with larger environments choose to test their DAT files in their environment
before deployment to all their machines. To do this use the different branches offered in the
repositories. These branches, Evaluation, Previous, and Current, allow you to place different versions
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