Basic Concepts Of The Administration Concept - KAPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 5.0 - FOR WINDOWS WORKSTATIONS Administrator's Manual

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If centralized administration via Kaspersky Administration Kit is used, the
application is controlled remotely from a computer on which the Administration
console installed.
The administration console is a standard interface integrated into MMC that
allows the logical network administrator to perform the following functions:
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remote installation of Kaspersky Anti-Virus on client computers;
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updating the anti-virus database and application modules;
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managing policies and tasks on client computers;
•
installing license keys to client computers;
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viewing reports about application operation on the client computers.
If you would like to control the application via Kaspersky Administration
Kit, you will have to install the Network Agent on the client computer;
the Network Agent ensures the interaction of the workstation with the
Administration Server (details see Kaspersky Administration Kit 5.0
Reference Guide).
Please see details of the centralized administration concept in the Kaspersky
Administration Kit 5.0 Administrator's Guide.
3.1. Basic concepts of the
administration concept
When administrated locally, protection provided by Kaspersky Anti-Virus is
configured by the administrator through modification of the application's settings
and tasks.
A task is a specified action performed by the application. Based on their
purpose, tasks are divided into types (full scan task, the task for updating anti-
virus databases and software modules, etc.). Each task has a set of parameters
(task settings) applied to its execution, i.e.
Application settings – a set of additional parameters defined for the operation
of the application that includes parameters of the quarantine, backup storage,
reports generation service, etc.
When using the centralized administration using Kaspersky Administration Kit,
the administrator defines settings and tasks for the application installed on a
remote computer of the network.
A distinctive feature of centralized administration is arranging of computers into
groups and modifying their settings by creating and defining group policies.
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