I had recently to set a proxy to Symantec Endpoint Software (v11) on one Mac OS x.
I have always found nice to be working on Mac OS, as the bash is always there and similar to Linux.
I have been trying (initially) to set PAC file (Proxy Automatic configuration file), however it seems that unfortunately the Symantec component like liveupdate does not like/does not know how to proceed with this type of file.
BTW, I have decided to set the proxy manually; But I had to look and figure the real address of the proxy from the PAC file already used/assigned to the Mac OS x Machine.
Get the url of the PAC file:
- opened System Preferences / network
- Click on Advanced button (bottom)
- Click on Proxies
- From the Windows called: Select a protocol to configure
- Select the bottom one, Automatic Proxy Configuration
As now, I am having the url for the current PAC file used by the Mac Os.
To see the content of that file, I need to open safari and enter this url into:
From now, I have the precise location of my proxy that I can enter into the Liveupdate settings for Symantec Endpoint client.
The new step has been using this url as reference:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH103527
Edit the liveupdate.conf from the /etc/ on your Mac OS.
- open a terminal session on that same machine
- type : sudo vi /etc/liveupdate.conf
- press ‘i’ for insert
- Then go down up to where you wish to add this following line.
- proxy=192.168.1.250:3128
Once it’s done.
type : ‘Esc’ (out from the insert mode) then ‘w’ (to write the changes) and ‘q’ to quit and ‘!’ to confirm to quit the vi editor.
More details on vi editor: http://www.somethingsomewhere.net/vi-command-lines-examples/
To make sure that the change is fully apply, you can run this command to look into the file:
cat /etc/liveupdate.conf
Now, you can run the liveupdate from your Symantec Endpoint Client which would be passing throuhg your proxy server.
Hope that would help someone else than myself.