Following are the steps to deploy Endpoint Protection clients using ManageEngine.
Prerequisites
• Administrator must have an account on the Mac client computers with admin privileges.
• Enable Remote Management on the Mac client computers.
• Your administrator computer must have packages installed on it. Packages is a Mac OS application that helps you to create bundle for your payload and installation. To download packages, visit http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Packages/about.html.
• ManageEngine Agent should be installed on Mac device.
• Mac device should be enrolled with ManageEngine.
• For macOS Catalina and above only, do the following on your Mac system:
1 Open System Preferences.
2 Go to Security & Privacy > Privacy tab.
3 Click the lock icon and provide password if it is locked.
4 Select Full Disk Access in the left pane.
Add the following process in the given path and then select the processes in the Security &
Privacy Full Disk Access window,
/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/fr.whitebox.packages/packages_dispatcher
Steps
Follow these steps to create the Mac client package:
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On the Seqrite Endpoint Protection, download UEMREMOTEINST.TAR from the URL.
Note: This tar file is common for EPP and NG Mac clients. It contains files which are required for creating Mac client packager. http://dlupdate.quickheal.com/builds/seqrite/uemcp/en/UEMREMOTEINST.tar -
Download Mac client installer from the EPP server. These builds will be in the TAR format.
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Rename the Mac client installer as follows:
• Mac client installer – MCCLAGNT.TAR -
Extract UEMREMOTEINST.TAR.
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Copy MCCLAGNT.TAR to /UEMREMOTEINST.
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Open Terminal.app with user having administrative privileges on the Mac computer and go to the UEMREMOTEINST folder.
Enter the following commands:
• cd ./Remote_Installation/PKG
• sudo sh ./ClientAgentInstaller/CreatePackage.sh
When the package creation is completed successfully, ClientAgentInstaller.pkg file is created in the ./Remote_Installation/PKG/ClientAgentInstaller/ folder.
Note: Use this ClientAgentInstaller.pkg for Mac client deployment using ManageEngine Endpoint Central.
Deploying Profile
Follow these steps to deploy profile with ManageEngine to load product extensions silently and to provide full disk access: -
Log in to the Manage Endpoint Central Console.
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Go to Configuration and select Mac.
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Select Custom Configuration.
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Enter custom configuration name.
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Download the profile from http://download.quickheal.com/builds/seqrite/84/en/build/SeqriteMacProfile.zip.
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Extract the downloaded SeqriteMacProfile.zip, it will contain SeqriteMacProfile10.13.mobileconfig
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Click Browse. The downloaded SeqriteMacProfile10.13.mobileconfig into the Custom Configuration profile.
Note: This profile will work on macOS Big Sur and onwards systems. -
Define Target:
a. Remote Office/Domain: Select the domain name.
b. Filter Computer based on: Computer – Select Mac Computer name. (You can find Mac Computer name at > click ellipse> Click ‘Agent’ > Click ‘Mac’ chart from OS Platform.) -
Click Deploy Immediately.
Mac Client Deployment with ManageEngine
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Log in to the Manage Endpoint Central Console.
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Go to Software Deployment.
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Click Add Package. Select Mac from the drop-down values.
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Enter the Package Name.
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Select Commercial from the License Type drop-down values.
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Click Browse to upload the Mac packager that is, ClientAgentInstaller.pkg.
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Click Add Package. The packager gets added.
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Now, in the left pane, go to Deployment > Install/Uninstall Software > Mac > Computer Configuration.
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Give an appropriate name for configuration.
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Select Operation Type: Install.
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Select the package name that you entered earlier from the Package Name drop-down list values.
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Select Deploy any time at the earliest from Apply Deployment Policy drop-down list values.
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Define Target:
a. Remote Office/Domain: Select the domain name.
b. Filter Computer based on: Computer – Select Mac Computer name. (You can find Mac Computer name at > click ellipse> Click ‘Agent’ > Click ‘Mac’ chart from OS Platform.) -
Click Deploy Immediately.