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Sending manual wake-up calls to systems, Wake Up Agents
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Working with the agent from the McAfee ePO server Sending manual wake-up calls to systems 13 Sending manual wake-up calls to systems Manually sending an agent or SuperAgent wake-up call to systems in the System Tree is useful when you make policy changes and you want agents to call in for an update before the next agent-server communication. Task For option definitions, click ? in the interface. 1 Click Menu | Systems | System Tree, then select the group that contains the target systems. 2 Select the systems from the list, then click Actions | Agent | Wake Up Agents. 3 Make sure the systems you selected appear in the Target section. 4 Next to Wake-up call type, select whether to send an Agent Wake-Up Call or SuperAgent Wake-Up Call. 5 Accept the default Randomization (0 - 60 minutes) or type a different value. Consider the number of systems that are receiving the wake-up call, and how much bandwidth is available. If you type 0, agents respond immediately. 6 To send minimal product properties as a result of this wake-up call, deselect Get full product properties.... The default is to send full product properties. 7 To update all policies and tasks during this wake-up call, select Force complete policy and task update. 8 Enter a Number of attempts, Retry interval, and Abort after settings for this wake-up call if you do not want the default values. 9 Click OK to send the agent or SuperAgent wake-up call. Sending manual wake-up calls to a group An agent or SuperAgent wake-up call can be sent to an entire System Tree group in a single task. This is useful when you have made policy changes and want agents to call in for an update before the next agent-server communication. Task For option definitions, click ? in the interface. 1 Click Menu | Systems | System Tree. 2 Select the target group from the System Tree and click the Group Details tab. 3 Click Actions | Wake Up Agents. 4 Make sure the selected group appears next to Target group. 5 Select whether to send the agent wake-up call to All systems in this group or to All systems in this group and subgroups. 6 Next to Type, select whether to send an Agent wake-up call or SuperAgent wake-up call. 7 Accept the default Randomization (0 - 60 minutes), or type a different value. If you type 0, agents awaken immediately. McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® 4.6.0 Software Product Guide 155