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Agent activity logs
The agent activity log files are useful for determining agent status or for troubleshooting. Two log files
record agent activity and are located in the agent installation folders on the managed system.
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About the agent activity logs
View the agent activity log from the managed system
View the agent activity log from the McAfee ePO server
About the agent activity logs
The agent maintains two log files that track its actions.
Agent activity log
This log file records agent activity related to things such as policy enforcement, agent‑server
communication, and event forwarding. You can define a size limit of this log file. On the Logging tab of
the McAfee Agent policy pages, you can configure the level of agent activity that is recorded.
The agent activity log is an XML file named agent_<system>.xml, where <system> is the NetBIOS
name of the system where the agent is installed.
Detailed agent activity log
The detailed activity log contains troubleshooting messages. This file has a 1 MB default size limit.
When this log file reaches 1 MB, a backup copy is made (agent_<system>_backup.log).
On Windows systems, the detailed agent activity log is named agent_<system>.log file, where
<system> is the NetBIOS name of the system on which the agent is installed.
On UNIX‑based systems, the detailed log files are found in the folder /opt/McAfee/cma/scratch/etc
and they are named log, log.1, log.2,…, log.5. The higher the log number, the older the file.
View the agent activity log from the managed system
The agent activity log can be seen on the Windows client system using the Agent tray icon (McTray).
The agent icon is available in the system tray only if the Show McAfee system tray icon (Windows only) policy is
set in ePolicy Orchestrator on the General tab of the McAfee Agent policy pages. If it is not visible,
select this option and apply it. When you finish viewing the log file content, you can hide the icon again
by deselecting the option and applying the change.
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