User's Manual

Understanding Kaspersky Administration Kit 13

• sending and receiving of control commands;

• synchronization of the configuration information;

• sending information about events in the applications' operation to the

Server;

• functioning of the updating agent;

is ensured by the Network agent. This component must be installed on all

computers where the control of the Kaspersky Lab's applications is performed

using Kaspersky Administration Kit.

The Network agent is installed on the computer as a service with a set of

attributes as follows:

• with name Kaspersky Network Agent;

• with automatic start at the operating system startup;

• with the Local system profile.

A computer, server or workstation on which the Network agent and the monitored

Kaspersky Lab's applications are installed will be called the Server

administration client (or simply the client computer).

Depending on the organizational or territorial structure of the company, functions

performed and the set of Kaspersky Lab's applications installed, client computers

may be organized in administration groups. This arrangement may be

implemented in order to ensure convenience of managing the computers in the

group as a single entity and when arranging computers in the group any

combination of the specified principles and other attributed at the administrator's

discretion may be used. For example, the top level can be comprised of groups

corresponding to the departments. On the next level, within each department,

computers will be grouped depending on the function they perform: one group of

computers may include all workstations, another all file servers, etc.

A group is a set of client computers combined by some attribute in order to

control a group computers as a single entity. All client computers in a group

• common parameters of the application's operation using group policies;

• common application's operation mode - by creating group tasks (applica-

tion functions) with a specified set of parameters (for example, creation

and installation of a single installation package, updating of the anti-virus

database and application modules, on-demand computer scan and real-

time protection).

A client computer may be included into one group only.

The administrator may create a hierarchy of servers and groups using any

number of nested levels if this simplifies his application administration tasks.

Slave Administration servers, groups and client computers may be located on the

same hierarchical level.