19th April 2016 - EPO Notes

19th April 2016 EPO Notes:

repository or repo:
- contain security software packages and updates to distribute to clients (simply think of repo contains latest software updates and provides to client machines)
- types:
master repo (contain latest versions and for distribution = ePO Server)
distributed repo (contain copies from master repo's data. Think of it as local mirrors )

distributed repo mini system config:
- 800MB disk space
- 256MB ram (mini)

types of distributed repo
- superagent repo (system hosting superagents as distributed repo. mcafee agent must be installed)
- ftp repo (ftp server as repo)
- http repo (http server as repo)
- unc share repo (shared folder as repo)

replication
- automatically when global updating enabled
- running schedule replicate task automatically or manually

agent handlers
- reduce load on epo server, saving bandwidth
- move agent request closer to the requester systems

mcafee agent communicate with epo server so that settings are updated, events sending, etc. The communication is known as agent-server communication

superagent - an agent acts as a middle man between epo server and other agents in the same network broadcast segment

function of superagent -
1) caching info received from epo server or distributed repo and then distributes to agents in the network subnet. using lazy caching, superagents get data from master repo only when requested, thus saving bandwidth

2) broadcast wakeups calls to other agents


- Ref: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 5.1.0 Software Product Guide

- wong chee tat :)

09th Nov 2015 ePO Notes

09th Nov 2015 ePO Notes

- ePO 4.6 no support win 2012 and win 2012r2 server

- ePO 5.0 no support win 2012 r2

- ePO 5.1 / 5.3 support win2012 r2

source: KB51569

- EPO5.3.1.188 (release on 28th sept 2015)

- EPO5.3.0.400 (release on 19th may 2015)

source: KB59938

- EPO 4.6  no support SQL Server 2014 and SQL Server 2014 express

- EPO 5.0 support up to SQL server 2012
- EPO 5.1 support up to SQL server 2012
- EPO 5.3 support up to SQL server 2014

source: KB51569

- ePO server -> master repository (1 master in each ePO server)

- maintains latest versions of security softwares & updates

- link location: (\DB\software)

SITEMGR.XML file:

- Back up & restore distributed repo & source sites if need to reinstall the server

- Import distributed repo & source sites from a previous ePO install

mcafee agent

- client component providing secure comms between products and epo server

- size est 6.30MB (framepkg.exe)

- agent GUID 64 bit unique id generated during first startup of the framework service





- wong chee tat :)