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From the Assigned policy drop‑down list, select the desired General policy.
From this location, you can edit the selected policy, or create a new policy.
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Select whether to lock policy inheritance to prevent any systems that inherit this policy from having
another one assigned in its place.
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On the SuperAgent tab, select Convert agents to SuperAgents to enable broadcast of wake‑up calls.
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Click Save.
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Send an agent wake‑up call.
SuperAgent caching and communication interruptions
The SuperAgent caches the contents of its repository in a specific manner designed to minimize
wide‑area network (WAN) usage.
If an agent has been converted to a SuperAgent, it can cache content from the McAfee ePO server, the
distributed repository, or other SuperAgents to distribute locally to other agents, reducing WAN
bandwidth. To activate this, turn on LazyCaching in the McAfee Agent | SuperAgent policy options page which
you access from Menu | Policy | Policy Catalog.
The SuperAgents cannot cache content from McAfee HTTP or FTP repositories.
How the cache works
When a client system first requests content, the SuperAgent assigned to that system caches that
content. From that point on, the cache is updated whenever a newer version of the package requested
is available in the Master Repository. When a hierarchical structure of SuperAgent is created, the child
SuperAgent receives the requested the content update from its parent's cache.
The SuperAgent is guaranteed only to store content required by the agents assigned to it because it
does not pull any content from the repositories until requested from a client. This minimizes traffic
between the SuperAgent and the repositories. While the SuperAgent is retrieving content from the
repository, client system requests for that content are paused.
The SuperAgent must have access to the repository. Without this access, agents receiving updates from
the SuperAgent never receive new content. Make sure your SuperAgent policy includes access to the
repository.
Agents configured to use the SuperAgent as their repository receive the content cached in the
SuperAgent instead of directly from the McAfee ePO server. This improves agent system performance
by keeping the majority of network traffic local to the SuperAgent and its clients.
If the SuperAgent is reconfigured to use a new repository, the cache is updated to reflect the new
repository.
When the cache is flushed
SuperAgents flush content from their cache in two situations.
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