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Client tasks and Threat Prevention

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Automate management or maintenance on managed systems using client tasks.

Your managed product adds these client tasks to the Client Task Catalog. You can use client tasks as is, edit them, or create new ones.

Threat Prevention default client tasks

Client task

Description

Custom On-Demand Scan

Examines all parts of the managed computer for potential threats, at times that don't interfere with your work.

Policy-Based On-Demand Scan

Runs the default Quick Scan and Full Scan on-demand scans from ePO - On-prem.

Configure the behavior of quick and full scans in the On-Demand Scan policy settings.

Restore from Quarantine

Restores individual items from the quarantine.

Roll Back AMCore Content

Removes specified version numbers of the AMCore content files from client systems.



Threat Prevention leverages the following default Trellix Agent client tasks.

Trellix Agent default client tasks

Client task

Description

Management platform

Product Deployment

Deploys Trellix products to client systems.

ePO - On-prem

Product Update

Updates content files, engines, and all Trellix products automatically.

All

Mirror Repositories

Replicates the updated content and engine files from the first accessible repository to a mirror site on your network.

For information about using distributed repositories to keep your security software up to date, see the ePO - On-prem Best Practices Guide.

ePO - On-prem



For information about client tasks and the Client Task Catalog, see the ePO - On-prem documentation.