
6 Send an agent wake-up call. For instructions on sending an agent wake-up call, please
refer to Sending an agent wake-up call section.
NOTE: You can create and enforce McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Linux policies and view
reports only after adding the McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Linux extension files.
Scheduling tasks
The ePolicy Orchestrator software allows you to create, schedule, and maintain client tasks that
run on the managed systems. You can define client tasks for the entire System Tree, a specific
group, or an individual system.
Tasks
Creating a Product Update task
Creating an on-demand scan task
Creating a Product Update task
Your software can only provide full protection if you keep it up-to-date with the latest anti-virus
definitions (DATs), spam engine, and anti-virus scanning engine. We recommend that you
update DAT files daily and regularly check the McAfee AVERT (Anti-Virus Emergency Response
Team) website for new DAT files. Use this task to schedule autoupdates on the Linux server
using ePolicy Orchestrator.
Task
1 Log on to the ePolicy Orchestrator server as an administrator.
2 Click Systems | System Tree and select a required group or system(s).
3 From Client Tasks, select the required group in the System Tree for which you want to
create the Product Update task.
4 Click New Task. The Client Task Builder page appears.
5 In Description, type a Name and Notes (if required) for the Product Update task.
6 Select Product Update (McAfee Agent) as the Type of the task and click Next.
7 Schedule the task as desired and click Next to select the DAT, ExtraDAT and Linux
Engine.
8 Schedule the task immediately or as required, then click Next to view the Summary of
the product update task.
9 Click Save.
10 Send an agent wake-up call.
NOTE: Click Edit to change the description/schedule of a product update task or Delete
to remove it.
Creating an on-demand scan task
Use this task to schedule an on-demand scan on the Linux client computer using ePolicy
Orchestrator. On-demand scan task involves a scheduled scanning of your Linux server(s) to
Integrating with ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0
Scheduling tasks
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