[Casper] Script help

[Nichols, Jared]

Hi Bruce-

This is what we've been doing from ePolicy, but sometimes things don't work as advertised.  McAfee's documentation is historically weak as well.  Fortunately, a good number of the macs that connect to ePO are managed with Casper, so I can use this secondary solution as a backup.

Thanks
j

On 11/30/08 20:16 , "Bruce Stewart" <bstewart at brocku.ca> wrote:

Hi,
An alternative would be to use the reporting and policy enforcement tools from NAI called ePolicy. This is a separate install that allows an ePolicy server to get info on VirusScan versions, engines, DATs, scan settings and control it all for PC and Mac from one server. We use it university wide for all faculty, staff and students in our residences. Works great but it is not free like a shell script ran by Casper.

Bruce
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Bruce Stewart
Information Technology Services
Brock University
bruce at brocku.ca


On 24/11/08 10:17 AM, "Nichols, Jared" <jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu> wrote:

Hi-

What's the best way to have a machine report its DAT anti-virus level?  We use McAfee VirusScan 8.6.1, which stores its dats in /usr/local/vscanx/dats.  All I really need is an "ls" on that folder as the folders contained within "dats" are the dat levels, e.g. "5443" for the most recent.  The resource kit has a nice script, but it's for Virex.  VirusScan doesn't have the uvscan command that the script references (or at least not that I'm aware of)

Anyway...

At my old job I used Apple Remote Desktop and could just display the results of an LS command on my admin workstation.  How do I get something similar with Casper?

I was thinking that I'd have a script do an LS on /usr/local/vscanx/dats and pipe that to a file that used a query to networksetup to name it the name of the computer.  Then, I'd copy it to my CasperShare.  Wrong way about it?

Thanks!!!

j


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