
• McAfee Agent — Agent installed on a managed system that acts as the intermediary between
the Host Intrusion Prevention client and the ePolicy Orchestrator server and database. It
sends data to the client from the ePO server and vice versa.
• Host Intrusion Prevention extensions — Interface to policy management in the ePolicy
Orchestrator console.
• Host Intrusion Prevention client — Main software component that provides intrusion protection
on the workstation or server on which it is installed.
• Host Intrusion Prevention content updates (IPS protection only) — Updated security content,
including signatures and trusted applications, delivered at regular intervals to keep IPS
protection up-to-date.
Installation overview
Host Intrusion Prevention is installed only in an ePolicy Orchestrator environment. An ePO server
and database must be in place and a McAfee Agent installed on each client system on which
you want to install Host Intrusion Prevention. For details on requirements and instructions for
setting up this ePO environment, see the
ePolicy Orchestrator Installation Guide
.
With the ePO server and agents in place, install the appropriate Host Intrusion Prevention
extension in ePO. The version of the product you purchased (firewall protection only or firewall
and IPS protection) and the version of ePO you are using determine which extensions to install.
For details, see Installing in ePolicy Orchestrator.
The final step is to install Host Intrusion Prevention on client computers running Windows,
Linux, or Solaris, where a version of the McAfee Agent is already installed. For details see
Installing the Windows Client, Installing the Solaris Client, or Installing the Linux Client.
NOTE: The Host Intrusion Prevention Firewall feature is valid on Windows platforms only.
Because of architectural changes in this release, Host Intrusion Prevention 8.0 clients are
managed by the Host Intrusion Prevention 8.0 extension only. You can however maintain the
version 7.0 extension alongside the version 8.0 extension and manage previous client versions
until you are ready to migrate to version 8.0. For details on migration, see Migrating Policies.
Table 1: Component versions
On client systemsOn the ePolicy Orchestrator server
LinuxSolarisWindowsHost IPS 8.0 extensionsVersion
––Firewall only for ePO 4.04.0 Patch
6 and
later
• McAfee Agent 4.0
(Patch 3 and later)
or McAfee Agent 4.5
(Patch 1 and later)
for Windows
• Host IPS 8.0 client
Firewall and IPS for ePO 4.0
• McAfee Agent 4.0 (Patch
3 and later) or McAfee
• McAfee Agent
4.0 (Patch 3
• McAfee Agent 4.0
(Patch 3 and later)
or McAfee Agent 4.5 Agent 4.5 (Patch 1 and
later) for Linux
and later) or
McAfee Agent
4.5 (Patch 1
(Patch 1 and later)
for Windows
• Host IPS 8.0 client
and later) for
Solaris
• Host IPS 8.0 client
• Host IPS 8.0
client
Installing McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention
Installation overview
7McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention 8.0 Installation Guide
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