Method Action Notes
McAfee ePO The McAfee ePO administrator
specifies the systems and selects
one of the Push Agents options when
adding a new system, or Deploy
Agents for systems already in the
System Tree.
• Selecting many systems can temporarily
affect network throughput.
• You must specify credentials with
administrator rights to the target systems.
Manual (using the
FramePkg.exe
installer)
The network administrator installs
McAfee Agent on each managed
system individually.
• Allows for information such as custom
properties to be added on an individual
system basis.
• Once McAfee Agent is installed, use the
McAfee ePO server to upgrade products
and update product content.
Third-party
software such as
Microsoft Systems
Management
Server (SMS),
Microsoft Group
Policy Objects
(GPO), or IBM
Tivoli,
Configure your third-party
software to distribute McAfee
Agent installation package, which
is located on your McAfee ePO
server.
• McAfee Agent installation package contains
necessary security keys and the site list.
• See third-party instructions.
Login scripts
(Windows only)
The network administrator creates
an installation or upgrade script,
which runs at each logon to a
system.
• The user must log on to the system to
trigger the installation or upgrade.
• The installation package must be in a
location accessible to the system.
Customized
McAfee Smart
installer
The McAfee ePO administrator
creates a customized McAfee
Smart installer and distributes it
to managed node users for
manual installation.
• The managed node users must have
administrator rights to install McAfee
Agent manually.
• Enabling Peer-to-Peer servers helps reduce
load on the McAfee ePO server. See
Peer-to-Peer service for more details.
• Once McAfee Agent is installed, assigned
policies and client tasks are enforced on
the managed node.
Deployment task Use the McAfee ePO server System
Tree to upgrade McAfee Agent on
selected target systems.
• McAfee Agent must already be present on
the target system.
• Enabling Peer-to-Peer servers helps reduce
load on the McAfee ePO server. See
Peer-to-Peer service for more details.
An image
containing McAfee
Agent
The administrator removes McAfee
Agent GUID using the command
line switch, then creates an image
that contains McAfee Agent and
deploys the image.
• Removing the GUID allows McAfee Agent
to generate a new GUID upon the first
agent-server communication.
• Failure to remove the GUID results in
"sequencing errors" from the multiple
identical systems
Installing McAfee Agent
Methods of installing McAfee Agent
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