How To Setup McAfee Agent Handler

How To Setup McAfee Agent Handler

Please see the following SNAP SHOT. Agent Handler can only be installed on Windows Server 2003 SP 2 and Windows Server 2008 in Windows environment.

Agent Handler SETUP can be found in McAfee ePO setup.

Setup will ask for details of your ePO sever and its administrator password.

After Installation is completed, Agent Handler will be visible in your ePO Server's System Tree Automatically.

Make a new Sub Group in System and Name it According to your need (e.g. Department name, Location etc.). this group will contain the systems that will communicate directly with the Agent Handler.

To see Agent Handler configuration , assignments and priorities please follow following SNAPSHOT.

Go to Menu, then Configuration and Click Agent Handlers.

  



On Agent Handler page click new assignment to create new assignment rule so that systems that are needed to communicate with Agent Handlers can be reached. Also this helps the Agent Handler to service the mentioned sub-nets or clients.

when you click new assignment tab following window will appear where you can give the details and configure your assignment rule and customize your Handler Priority.

Click on Policy Catalog to create the policy that allows desired agents to communicate with Agent Handler but not with ePO server. to Create policy Duplicate the existing MY Default policy of McAfee Agent's policies and name it as you want.

Click to edit Policy.

Add desired system to the Specific group on which agent handler policy needs to be applied.

do the following steps to change policy assignment. assign the policy which was created so that desired systems can communicate to agent handler to the group.

Agent Handler installation and configuration is completed. Now we have to verify that only desired systems are communicating with the agent handler. to do this we can perform following steps on host with agent.

                             

from upper SNAPSHOTS we can verify that the desired agents are communicating with the Agent Handler. to check the communication of other agents with ePO server we can perform following steps. do not get confused with the properties of McAfee agent. Run the update process to verify communication.

Important Ports that are needed for the Agent handler outbound and bi-directional communication.

Agents Handler Ports have been taken from official McAfee KnowledgeBaseMcAfee 

AgentHandler Official white paper can be viewed as a reference.