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Using Client and Server tasks in your
managed environment
Client and Server tasks are, as their names imply, tasks that are carried out on your ePolicy
Orchestrator server or the clients it manages.
Using these tasks effectively can help ease the overhead of managing your secure network.
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Client tasks
Server tasks
Client tasks
Client tasks run on the clients and are typically scheduled to run at a specific time.
They are different from policies because they are an action that the client must perform at a
predetermined time.
Many of the tasks are specific to certain products, if you have their extensions checked in to ePolicy
Orchestrator. But the major tasks dedicated to the McAfee Agent are:
• Product deployment — Tells the agent which products you want it to deploy to the client
• Product update — Uses the McAfee Agent update content such as VirusScan signatures, engine,
or product patches
Client tasks can be set at a group or machine level and always inherits to the group or machine below
them. Always try to set your client tasks at the highest point of your directory tree, like the My
Organization level. This reduces the number of tasks you have to manage and keeps your
administration overhead to a minimum.
Deploy products
Product deployment tells the agent which products you want deployed to the client and when.
To deploy a product you must create a task and either link it to policy enforcement or schedule it to
occur. The agent deploys the products in the order you specify until all products are installed using the
schedule you specify.
Many of the tasks are specific to certain products, for example VirusScan Enterprise or SiteAdvisor if
you have their extensions checked into ePolicy Orchestrator. But there are two tasks that are
dedicated to the McAfee Agent. Those two tasks are Product deployment and Product update. See
Updating products for detailed product updating information.
You also have the option of running this task at every policy enforcement interval. This feature can be
confusing. See Configuring the policy enforcement interval for details. Policy enforcement occurs every
five minutes by default on all clients based on the McAfee Agent policy. Policy enforcement is purely
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