How to stop Mcafee

[sguay]

Hi. I have about 30 servers and I want to stop Mcafee on my servers, when it take a backup.

My servers is running Novell 5 and for my backup I use Legato.

Any idea, thanks

 

[TheLad]

You could use PRE and POST backup NCF's - the PRE stopping McAfee and the POST starting it back up again.

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[salserocito]

Try using Novell's CRON.NLM in conjuction with STUFFIT.NLM.

CRON.NLM will allow you to schedule a time for McAfee to be brought down via a script file that gets called by CRON.NLM. The script file contains the exact EXIT keystroke sequence to exit from McAfee.

We use it here and it works like a charm EVERY NIGHT!!!

Good Luck!

 

[sguay]

salserocito:

could you give me a part of your script file like the command to stop and restart McAfee, and where i have to put it in the app or sys volume?

thanks you

 

[salserocito]

Here ya go...

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>CRONTAB (this is what controls the timing of CRON)

># This is a command file to shutdown Groupwise agents >11:30PM prior to backups
># 30 23=11:30PM,* * 1-5=M-F

>30 23 * * 1-5 load stuffkey sys:commands/mcafee.txt /v

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Here is the text file that is called by CRON...

> MCAFEE.TXT
> # Unload McAfee screen
> <screen=McAfee NetShield>
> <F10>
> yes<cr>

Hope this helps!

Good Luck!

 

[sguay]

thank very much salserocito