I need to uninstall McAfee Agent from a server but it is a "Managed Node" How do I get it unmanaged?
We have a McAfee EPO server that has been handling out antivirus solution for the last few years. We are about to shift over to Sophos. I built a virtual machine (Windows 2012r2) to be our new Anti Virus server. I contacted Sophos to assist with the installation but when we went to install the Sophos software we noticed that the McAfee Agent had already been installed on the new server. Sophos insisted I remove it before we continue but when I go to uninstall the agent it tells me that it "Cannot be removed while it is in managed mode". I found my server in the Epolicy Orchestrator 5.1.1 system tree, but do not see how I can make it unmanaged. How can I get this Agent Software off of my new server?
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https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB60556
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ok I got the Agent removed, now I need to completely disable deployment on the McAfee EPO server. Do you have an article for that also?
To disable peer-to-peer services for a system:
Log on to the ePO 5.x console.
Click Menu, Systems, System Tree, Systems.
Select a group under System Tree. All the systems within this group appear in the details pane.
Select a system, then click Actions, Agent, Modify Policies on a Single System. The Policy Assignment page for that system appears.
From the Product drop-down menu, select McAfee Agent. The policy categories under McAfee Agent are listed with the system's assigned policy.
If the policy is inherited, select Break inheritance and assign the policy and settings below.
From the Assigned policy drop-down list, select a General policy. From this location, you can edit the selected policy, or create a policy.
Select whether to lock policy inheritance to prevent any systems that inherit this policy from having another one assigned in its place.
On the Peer-to-Peer tab, select these options as appropriate:
Deselect Enable Peer-to-Peer Communication to stop the McAfee Agent from discovering and using peer-to-peer servers in the network.
Deselect Enable Peer-to-Peer Serving to stop the McAfee Agent from serving content to peer agents.
Click Save.
Perform an agent wake-up call.
How to prevent ePolicy Orchestrator 5.x from automatically updating to the latest posted Engine
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB77901
Log on to the ePO 5.x console.
Click Menu, Systems, System Tree, Systems.
Select a group under System Tree. All the systems within this group appear in the details pane.
Select a system, then click Actions, Agent, Modify Policies on a Single System. The Policy Assignment page for that system appears.
From the Product drop-down menu, select McAfee Agent. The policy categories under McAfee Agent are listed with the system's assigned policy.
If the policy is inherited, select Break inheritance and assign the policy and settings below.
From the Assigned policy drop-down list, select a General policy. From this location, you can edit the selected policy, or create a policy.
Select whether to lock policy inheritance to prevent any systems that inherit this policy from having another one assigned in its place.
On the Peer-to-Peer tab, select these options as appropriate:
Deselect Enable Peer-to-Peer Communication to stop the McAfee Agent from discovering and using peer-to-peer servers in the network.
Deselect Enable Peer-to-Peer Serving to stop the McAfee Agent from serving content to peer agents.
Click Save.
Perform an agent wake-up call.
How to prevent ePolicy Orchestrator 5.x from automatically updating to the latest posted Engine
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB77901