Wednesday, February 23, 2011

McAfee VirusScan 8.8 from 8.7 on ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5

I use McAfee's ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) 4.5 at work. When patches to McAfee VirusScan or the McAfee Agent (ePO Management Agent) are released, patches are checked in to the Software Repository and are deployed. New versions of software are a bit different, so when McAfee released VirusScan 8.8, I did not do everything needed to get it deployed initially. First, I only checked in the software; then I did everything (from the installation instructions) but update the client tasks. I'm recording what I had to do to make it work (update and deploy McAfee VirusScan 8.8 using ePO) for future reference:

1) Download the new version of VirusScan from McAfee using the Grant Number
2) Keep the zip file (needed to check in the software) and unzip the contents to a directory (needed to check in the extensions and to run EPOPolicyMigration).
3) Launch McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5.0 Management Console and login
4) Go to Menu - Software - Master Repository
5) Click Actions - Check In Package, click Browse, browse to the VSE880LML.zip file and click Next and Save.
6) Click Menu - Software - Extensions and click Install Extension
7) From the extracted VSE880LML folder, install the zip files epo_help_vse_880, virusscan8800, and virusscanreports120.
8) Run the EPOPolicyMigration tool the inside the extracted VSE880LML folder. Migration should complete successfully.
9) Update your client tasks to install VirusScan 8.8 (from within Menu - Systems - System Tree, pick your group, click the Client Tasks "tab" and edit any tasks that install VirusScan to change from 8.7 to 8.8).

It started working after that. Whew.