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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:

We run a postinstallation script immediately after:


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:

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

Any ideas?

@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.

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