Vulnerability Manager Plus can be used to manage computers with Mac operating Systems. Vulnerability Manager Plus has separate agents to manage Mac computers. This document will explain you on the following:
Vulnerability Manager Plus currently supports the following Mac versions:
* OS marked as EOL by the vendor. Hence, we don't support patching for these OS versions.
Apple Silicon processors can run apps that are compiled for the Intel chipset through a software technology known as Rosetta 2. This translation layer is automatically enabled in macOS Big Sur, and provides users with access to all features in Vulnerability Manager Plus Agent. In short, Vulnerability Manager Plus efficiently supports laptops with these new types of processors.
Vulnerability Manager Plus has different agents for windows and Mac computers. Mac agents will be created by default and Mac agent settings need to be configured only for adding credentials that are required for remote agent installation.
Mac agents can be installed manually in the computers that need to be managed. Agents can be installed manually in every computer or through SSH. To install the agent, log-in into the computer as an administrator and follow the steps mentioned below.
You will have a drop down list, from which you can choose and download the appropriate agent. If the managed computers are in the same LAN, download Mac local agent. If the managed computers are in remote locations, download agents appropriately. Follow the steps mentioned below to install the agents manually,
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Installing Mac agents to remote office computers can be done easily through SSH. Using a Mac computer you can remotely connect to other computers and install the Mac agents. To know about installing agents follow the steps mentioned below.
Install the agent in the remote computer
To login into the target computer using SSH type ssh adminusername@hostname
Navigate to the location where the agent is copied, Unzip the agent zip file by typing unzip -oq UEMSMacAgent.zip
Install the agent using the command sudo installer-pkg UEMS_MacAgent.-target/
Enter the administrator password when prompted to complete agent installation.
Once the agents are installed successfully, the Mac computers will be listed in the SoM page in the Vulnerability Manager Plus web console.
To uninstall the agents from the computers, follow the steps mentioned below.