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About the McAfee Agent
The McAfee Agent is the client‑side component providing secure communication between ePolicy
Orchestrator and managed products. It also serves as an updater for managed and unmanaged
McAfee products.
The McAfee Agent consists of an ePolicy Orchestrator extension and a number of client side packages
that correspond to the client operating systems supported by the agent.
The term agent is used in three contexts within ePolicy Orchestrator:
• Agent — The basic operating mode for the McAfee Agent, providing a communication channel to
ePolicy Orchestrator and local services for other point‑products.
• SuperAgent — An agent that acts as a source of content updates to other agents in the same
network.
• Agent Handler — An ePolicy Orchestrator server component that you can install in various network
locations to help manage agent communication, balance the load, and update products.
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McAfee Agent
SuperAgent
Agent Handler
McAfee Agent
After being installed on a client system, the agent provides a communication channel from McAfee
managed point‑products to an ePolicy Orchestrator server.
In addition, the agent provides local services to these point‑products and to products developed by
McAfee Security Innovation Alliance partners.
While enabling products to focus on enforcing their policies, the McAfee Agent delivers services that
include updating, logging, reporting events and properties, task scheduling, communication, policy
storage, and product deployment.
Install the agent on systems you intend to manage with ePolicy Orchestrator. Systems can be
managed by ePolicy Orchestrator only if they have an agent installed.
While running silently in the background, the agent:
• Gathers information and events from managed systems, and sends them to the McAfee ePO server.
• Installs products and their upgrades on managed systems.
• Enforces policies and schedules tasks on managed systems, and sends events back to the McAfee
ePO server.
• Updates security content such as the DAT files associated with McAfee VirusScan Enterprise.
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