User's Manual

Kaspersky Administration Kit 7

directly connect to Kaspersky Lab update servers. You can schedule

updating to run automatically at a specified time to constantly keep your

protection current and monitor the update process on client computers.

• Gather reports

from all installations. Using the enhanced reporting

capabilities of Kaspersky Administration Kit, you can collect statistics

about the operation of all installations and create reports based on the

most recent statistics. The program allows you to create a cumulative

network report for a single Kaspersky Lab application (application-specific

reports) or a report about all Kaspersky Lab applications installed on an

individual computer (computer-specific report).

• Using mechanism of notifications about specific events in application's

operation and notifications sending mechanism. You can specify a set of

events which require notification. Such events that may occur during

application performance could be, for example, detection of a virus, failure

to update, or a new computer appearing on the network.

Kaspersky Administration Kit has three main components:

• Administration Server is a centralized storage of information about

Kaspersky Lab applications installed on the local company network and a

tool for efficiently managing them.

• Network Agent coordinates the Administration Server and the Kaspersky

Lab applications installed on a particular network node (a workstation or a

server). This component supports all applications included in Kaspersky

Anti-Virus

Business Optimal and Kaspersky Anti-Virus Corporate Suite.

• Administration Console, a user interface for Server and Agent

Administration services, plugs into the Microsoft Management Console

(MMC).

1.2. Hardware and software

requirements

Administration Server

• Software requirements:

• Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) version 2.8 and

above

• MSDE 2000 SP 3 or MS SQL Server 2000 SP 3

or higher or

MySQL version 5.0.22 (default code page UTF-8) or MS SQL 2-

-5 or higher or MS SQL 2005 Express and higher;

You can install MSDE from the distribution package included in the Kaspersky Ad-

ministration Kit distribution kit.