McAfee Agent handler equivalent

[hans som]

Hi,

Previously a McAfee admin and now leaning toward to Symantec.

Question:

What is the equivalent of McAfee agent handler in SEPM environment?

On my previous work, our McAfee Agent handler (DMZ)  managed our roaming users for policies and content update and the McAfee ePO as the sole central management console and served the internal users (LAN).

With my current company, not sure how to go with the same approach with SEPM?

 

[Rafeeq]

its call GUP , it will update only Content (not the policies)

there are different types

About the types of Group Update Providers

 

https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.HOWTO80957.html4

Detailed is here

https://symwisedownload.symantec.com/resources/sites/SYMWISE/content/live/SOLUTIONS/139000/TECH139867/en_US/GUP_Whitepaper_1.1.pdf?__gda__=1523150043_c99e237cdc7a81bbc45df67e91706d12

 

[Mithun Sanghavi]

Hello, 

Correct, Agent Handler (in Mcafee) is nothing but "Group Update Providers (GUP) in Symantec.

https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.HOWTO80957.html

https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH105005.html

Check these Articles for managing mobile machines:

Configuring mobile computers to automatically download definitions when disconnected from the Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 Management console

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH177361

Managing locations for remote clients

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO55419

Regards,

[ℬrίαη]

See here:

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO80900

[hans som]

Hi Guys,

Thank you for the comment, but GUP is more like a McAfee Superagent based on my previous experience? 

Agent handler is like a full blown ePO but without management UI so I would say it safe to place the instance in the DMZ. 

(My apologies, I am a newbie to Symantec world and believe me I would like to move on, so please bear with me to know more about the SEPM)

 

@Mithun

Find it very interesting link  but isn't loading? is the article referring to Location awareness? I find it usefull thou.

Managing locations for remote clients

 http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO55419 

[ℬrίαη]

The job of a GUP is to only provide content to SEP clients.

[Torb]

Like Brian said. A GUP is only meant to offload content distribution, the SEP agent still need to be able to reach the SEPM server to get policies and send malware incidents. To cover roaming users you must either set up a replication partner in DMZ or use a reverse proxy. See: https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH178325.html

[Torb]

Like Brian said. A GUP is only meant to offload content distribution, the SEP agent still need to be able to reach the SEPM server to get policies and send malware incidents. To cover roaming users you must either set up a replication partner in DMZ or use a reverse proxy. See: https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH178325.html

[hans som]

Thanks all for the answers, appreciated! I guess the answer is none.