Local Deployment Options

When you use Automatic Software Deployment, you can configure clients to use local storage to upgrade Endpoint Security clients. This lets administrators use Automatic Software Deployment, without the need for each Endpoint Security client to download a package from the Endpoint Security Management Server.

To set up such a deployment, you must:

• Upload the packages to the Endpoint Security Management Server.
• Create a Software Deployment rule with the package version selected.
• Configure a Common Client Settings rule to allow deployment from local paths or URLs.
• Upload the packages to the defined local storage paths or URLs.

This is only supported on Windows clients.

Note: If local deployment is enabled for a client, the administrator can still choose whether clients try to download packages from the Endpoint Security Management Server if packages are not found in local storage. This option is called: Enable Deployment from server when no MSI was found in local paths.

To enable Software Deployment with a locally stored package:

1. Upload each package to the Package Repository of the Endpoint Security Management Server.
2. Put the same packages in local storage location on client computers, for example C:\TEMP\EPS\32bit\EPS.msi.
3. Go to the Policy tab of SmartEndpoint > Client Settings rule.
4. In the Deployment Locations action, select Enable deployments from local paths or URLs. You can also Clone the action.
5. Double-click the action.

   The Deployment Locations window opens.

6. Make sure that Allow to install software deployment packages from… is selected.
7. Optional: Select Enable Deployment from Server when no MSI was found in local paths or URLs. When selected, if no MSI file is in the local paths or URLs, the client checks the Endpoint Security Management Server for packages.
8. Click Add item and select the Package Location to add paths for packages located on client computers. Select if each package is for 32 bit or 64 bit computers.
9. Click OK.
10. In the Deployment tab, create or edit a Software Deployment rule to use the package Version and assign it to computers.
11. Click Save.
12. Install Policy to deploy the rule to clients.

    Note - If the version of the Endpoint Security client in the Software Deployment rule and in the local file path is not the same, the client is not deployed.

If the version on the server and in the local file path are not the same, an error shows.