
To ensure that the parent SuperAgent is up‑to‑date with the latest content update, SuperAgent
wake‑up calls broadcast must be enabled. See Enable SuperAgent wake
‑
up call broadcast for more
details.
If the SuperAgents don’t serve agents with latest content update, agents reject the content update
received from SuperAgent and fall back to the next repository configured in the policy.
Arrange SuperAgent in hierarchy
General and Repository policies can be modified to enable and set SuperAgent hierarchy.
Task
For option definitions, click ? in the interface.
1
Click Menu | Policy | Policy Catalog, then from the Product drop‑down menu, select McAfee Agent, and from
the Category drop‑down menu, select General.
2
Click the My Default policy to start editing the policy. If you want to create a policy, click Actions | New
Policy.
The McAfee Default policy cannot be modified.
3
On the SuperAgent tab, select Convert agents to SuperAgents to convert the agent to a SuperAgent and
update its repository with latest content.
4
Select Use systems running SuperAgents as distributed repository to use the systems that host SuperAgents as
update repositories for the systems in its broadcast segment then provide the Repository Path.
5
Select Enable Lazy caching to allow SuperAgents to cache content when it is received from the McAfee
ePO server.
6
Click Save.
The Policy Catalog page lists the General policies.
7
Change the Category to Repository, then click the My Default policy to start editing the policy. If you want
to create policy, click Actions | New Policy.
8
On the Repositories tab, select Use order in repository list.
9
Click Automatically allow clients to access newly‑added repositories to add new SuperAgent repositories to the
list, then click Move to Top to arrange SuperAgents in hierarchy.
Arrange the hierarchy of the repositories in such a way that the parent SuperAgent is always at the
top of the repository list.
10
Click Save.
After setting the SuperAgent hierarchy you can create and run the McAfee Agent Statistics task to
collect a report of network bandwidth saving. See Collect McAfee Agent Statistics for more details.
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