McAfee Agent MER tool for Mac

donmontalvo
Esteemed Contributor III

Curious if anyone successfully automated deployment of the McAfee Agent MER tool for Mac?

We packaged the script and placed it in /private/tmp/ and it is executable:

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We run a postinstallation script immediately after:

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The postinstallation script content:

#!/bin/sh
/private/tmp/MA_Mac_mer.sh
/bin/sleep 60
exit 0

We then run a command to open /private/tmp/ folder, to hopefully make it easier and less confusing for the tech:

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When the policy completes, we don't get the expected /private/tmp/MER_<ComputerName>_YYYYMMDDhhmmss.zip" ZIP'd archive.

Any ideas?

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mm2270
Legendary Contributor III

@donmontalvo I've done it a different way. I'm not sure if it depends on the specific version of McAfee, but the following works for us to generate the MER reports.

/usr/local/McAfee/MSCMertool -s McAfeeMERTool

The only thing is, that definitely requires admin level privileges, meaning run as root, to work.

I have used that in custom menu item where end users can generate a report on their own if they are asked to submit a MER to IT in the case of suspected McAfee acting up on their Macs.