McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5/4.6: Supported Platforms for Rogue System Sensors
I manage an ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 environment and we’ve been replacing some of our systems functioning as Rogue System Sensors with new systems running Windows 7. Unfortunately, the deployment task I’ve had to deploy the new sensors did not appear to be executing – in fact, inspecting all the C:\ProgramData\McAfee\Common Framework\Task\*.ini on the systems didn’t even show a sensor deployment task.
Eventually it was determined that Windows 7 is not a supported operating system for a Rogue System Detection Sensor on ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5, therefore the agents were not processing the task.
McAfee recently published an article, located here, which details the platforms supported for Rogue System Detection under ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 and 4.6, but to sum it up:
Windows Server 2003, 2008, XP, and Vista are supported under ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 as Rogue System Detection Sensors. There is no mention of support for 2008 R2.
Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, XP, Vista, and Windows 7 are supported under ePolicy Orchestrator 4.6 as Rogue System Detection Sensors.
Sensors for both 4.5 and 4.6 can be deployed to both 32-bit and 64-bit Operating Systems, but the sensor remains a 32-bit program.
No backwards compatibility between different sensor versions
No backwards compatibility between different sensor version policies
As a result of this, it looks like I’ll be upgrading to ePolicy Orchestrator 4.6 pending management approval. I’ll post an updated blog with my findings post-upgrade, but in the meantime, I hope this information is useful to anyone else that may have experienced similar issues with Rogue System Sensor deployments.