KASPERSKY Security Center 9 9.0 User Manual
Kaspersky Security Center 9.0
Getting Started
APPLICATION VERSION: 9.0 CRITICAL FIX 3
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CONTENT
ABOUT THIS GUIDE ..................................................................................................................................................... 5
In this document ....................................................................................................................................................... 5
Document conventions ............................................................................................................................................. 6
ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION ............................................................................................................... 8
Information sources for further research ................................ ................................................................................... 8
Discussing Kaspersky Lab applications in the web forum ........................................................................................ 9
Contacting the Technical Documentation Development Team ................................................................................. 9
KASPERSKY SECURITY CENTER ............................................................................................................................. 10
MANAGING KASPERSKY SECURITY CENTER KEYS .............................................................................................. 11
About the License Agreement ................................................................................................................................ 11
About Kaspersky Security Center licenses ............................................................................................................. 11
About keys .............................................................................................................................................................. 12
About key files ........................................................................................................................................................ 12
Activating the application ........................................................................................................................................ 13
Renewing your license ........................................................................................................................................... 13
APPLICATION INTERFACE ........................................................................................................................................ 14
STARTING THE APPLICATION .................................................................................................................................. 15
GETTING STARTED.................................................................................................................................................... 16
Deploying anti-virus protection ............................................................................................................................... 16
Deploying anti-virus protection within an organization ...................................................................................... 17
Deploying anti-virus protection in an organization's network ............................................................................. 18
Installing Kaspersky Security Center components ............................................................................................ 18
Creating administration groups ......................................................................................................................... 19
Installing Kaspersky Security Center Web-Console .......................................................................................... 20
Creating a virtual Administration Server ............................................................................................................ 20
Defining an Update Agent. Configuring Update Agent ...................................................................................... 20
Configuring Network Agent installation package for deployment across the organization ................................ 21
Installing an anti-virus application remotely....................................................................................................... 21
Verifying downloaded updates .......................................................................................................................... 22
Configuring notifications .................................................................................................................................... 23
Testing notification distribution .......................................................................................................................... 23
Working with reports ......................................................................................................................................... 24
Configuring automatic installation of applications ............................................................................................. 24
Daily tasks .............................................................................................................................................................. 24
Viewing the current status of anti-virus protection ............................................................................................. 25
Viewing the report on detected viruses ............................................................................................................. 25
Viewing information about events ..................................................................................................................... 26
Periodic tasks ......................................................................................................................................................... 26
Configuring policies for application ................................................................................................................... 26
Viewing and changing local application settings ............................................................................................... 27
Printing and saving reports ............................................................................................................................... 27
Backing up Administration Server data ............................................................................................................. 28
G E T T I N G S T A R T E D
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UPGRADING FROM KASPERSKY ADMINISTRATION KIT 8.0 TO KASPERSKY SECURITY CENTER 9.0 ............ 29
CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................................................................. 30
CONTACTING THE TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICE ............................................................................................. 31
KASPERSKY LAB ZAO ............................................................................................................................................... 32
TRADEMARK NOTICES .............................................................................................................................................. 33
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ABOUT THIS GUIDE
IN THIS SECTION
In this document ................................................................................................................................................................ 5
Document conventions ...................................................................................................................................................... 6
This document describes the basic steps that allow you to quickly start using Kaspersky Security Center 9.0 (hereinafter
referred to as Kaspersky Security Center), and to deploy Kaspersky Lab anti-virus applications in an organization's
network.
This Guide is aimed at corporate network administrators responsible for anti-virus protection in organizations and SaaS
providers (hereinafter referred to as service providers).
This document describes in detail a simple Kaspersky Security Center installation scenario, in which an anti-virus
application is deployed (without the use of a hierarchy of Administration Servers) on several computers running the
Microsoft® Windows® operating system, in an organization's network.
In cases when steps sequence for the service provider differs from the sequence for the administrator, the steps for the
service provider are described separately.
This document also includes the procedure for upgrading the application from 8.0 to 9.0.
You can find more details on Kaspersky Security Center in the Implementation Guide and Administrator's Guide of
Kaspersky Security Center.
IN THIS DOCUMENT
Kaspersky Security Center Getting Started contains an introduction, sections that describe typical tasks that Kaspersky
Security Center performs, and a conclusion.
Additional sources of information (see page 8)
This section explains how to get information about the application apart from the documentation included in the
distribution package.
Kaspersky Security Center (see page 10)
The section contains information on the purpose of Kaspersky Security Center, and its main features and components.
Managing Kaspersky Security Center keys (see page 11)
This section describes the licensing features of Kaspersky Security Center.
Application interface (see page 14)
This section describes the main features of the Kaspersky Security Center interface.
G E T T I N G S T A R T ED
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Starting the application (see page 15)
SAMPLE TEXT
DOCUMENT CONVENTIONS DESCRI PTION
Note that...
Warnings are highlighted in red and enclosed in frames. Notifications contain
important information connected with critical actions related to computer security.
We recommend that you use...
Notes are framed in dotted-line boxes. Notes contain additional and reference
information.
Example:
...
Example blocks have a yellow background, and the heading "Example".
This section describes the start of Kaspersky Security Center.
Getting Started (see page 16)
The section describes the main features that provide for anti-virus protection of an organization.
Upgrading Kaspersky Administration Kit from 8.0 to Kaspersky Security Center 9.0 (see page 29)
This section describes the procedure of upgrading the 8.0 version of Kaspersky Administration Kit to the Kaspersky
Security Center 9.0 version, as well as basic actions to take when performing the initial setup of the application in the
updated version.
Conclusion (see page 30)
This section summarizes the information in this document.
Contacting the Technical Support Service (see page 31)
This section explains how to contact Technical Support Service.
Kaspersky Lab ZAO (see page 32)
This section provides information about Kaspersky Lab ZAO.
Trademark notice (see page 33)
This section contains registered trademark notices.
DOCUMENT CONVENTIONS
Document conventions described in the table below are used in this document.
Table 1. Document conventions
A B O U T T H I S G U I D E
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SAMPLE TEXT
DOCUMENT CONVENTIONS DESCRI PTION
Update is...
New terms are italic.
ALT+F4
Names of keyboard keys are bold and are all uppercase.
Names of the keys connected by a plus sign (+) indicate a combination of keys.
Enable
Names of interface elements are bold: for example, input fields, menu
commands, and buttons.
To configure task schedule:
Procedure headings are italic.
help
Text in the command line and text of messages displayed on the screen have a
special font.
<Your computer's IP address>
Variables are enclosed in angle brackets. Instead of a variable, the
corresponding value must be entered in each case; the angle brackets are
omitted.
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ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION
IN THIS SECTION
Information sources for further research ........................................................................................................................... 8
Discussing Kaspersky Lab applications in the web forum ................................................................................................. 9
Contacting the Technical Documentation Development Team .......................................................................................... 9
This section explains how to get information about the application apart from the documentation included in the
distribution package.
If you have any questions regarding purchasing, installing, or using Kaspersky Security Center, answers are available
from a variety of different sources.
Kaspersky Lab provides various sources of information about the application. You can select the most suitable
information source, depending on the level of importance and urgency of the issue.
INFORMATION SOURCES FOR FURTHER RESEARCH
You can view the following sources of information about the application:
Application's page on Kaspersky Lab's website
The application's page on the Technical Support Service's website (in the Knowledge Base)
Help system
Documentation
The application's page at the Kaspersky Lab website
http://www.kaspersky.com/security-center
This page will provide you with general information about the application's features and options.
The application's Knowledge Base page at the Technical Support Service website
http://support.kaspersky.com/remote_adm
This page contains articles by the Technical Support Service.
These articles contain useful information, recommendations, and answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ). The
articles cover purchasing, installing, and using Kaspersky Security Center. The articles are grouped by subject, for
example, "Working with key files", "Updating databases", or "Troubleshooting". The articles may contain answers to
questions related not only to Kaspersky Security Center, but to other Kaspersky Lab products as well, and may
contain general Technical Support Service news.
Online Help
The application installation package includes Full Help files.
They contain step-by-step descriptions of the application's features.
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To open the Full Help file, select Help Topics in the console Help menu.
If you have a question about a specific application window, you can use context-sensitive Help.
To open context-sensitive Help, in the corresponding window press the F1 key.
Documentation
The documentation supplied with the application aims to provide all the information you will require. It includes the
following documents:
Administrator's Guide – Describes the purpose, basic concepts, features, and general schemes for using
Kaspersky Security Center.
Implementation Guide – Contains a description of the installation procedures for the components of Kaspersky
Security Center as well as remote installation of applications in computer networks that have a simple
configuration.
Getting Started – Gives step-by-step explanations that allow anti-virus security administrators to start using
Kaspersky Security Center quickly, and to deploy Kaspersky Lab's anti-virus applications across a managed
network.
The documents are included in .pdf format in the distribution package of Kaspersky Security Center.
You can download the documentation files from the application's page at the Kaspersky Lab website.
Information about the application programming interface (API) of Kaspersky Security Center is displayed in the
klakaut.chm file, which is in the application installation folder.
DISCUSSING KASPERSKY LAB APPLICATIONS IN THE WEB
FORUM
If your question does not require an immediate answer, you can discuss it with the Kaspersky Lab experts and other
users in our forum at http://forum.kaspersky.com.
In this forum you can view current threads, leave comments, create new threads, and use forum search.
CONTACTING THE TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION DEVELOPMENT TEAM
If you have any questions about the documentation, or you have found an error in it, or would like to leave a comment,
please contact our Technical Documentation Development Team.
Click the Leave Feedback link located in the top right part of the help window to open the computer's default mail client.
In the email message form that opens, the email address of the Technical Documentation Development Team
appears (docfeedback@kaspersky.com) in the address line, and in the subject line, "Kaspersky Help Feedback:
Kaspersky Security Center" appears. Write your comment and send your message without changing the subject line.
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KASPERSKY SECURITY CENTER
The section contains information on the purpose of Kaspersky Security Center, and its main features and components.
The application is supplied in two versions:
Kaspersky Security Center 9.0 (hereinafter also referred to as Kaspersky Security Center) is supplied for free
with all Kaspersky Lab applications included in the Kaspersky Open Space Security (box version). You can also
download it from the Kaspersky Lab website (http://www.kaspersky.com).
Kaspersky Security Center 9.0, Service Provider Edition (hereinafter also referred to as Kaspersky Security
Center SPE) is distributed under special conditions to Kaspersky Lab partners. For detailed information, please
refer to Kaspersky Lab's website, the http://www.kaspersky.com/partners page.
The previous version of Kaspersky Security Center is Kaspersky Administration Kit.
Kaspersky Security Center provides a centralized solution for managing corporate network anti-virus security systems
based on Kaspersky Lab applications included in Kaspersky Open Space Security products. Kaspersky Security Center
supports all network configurations that use the TCP/IP protocol.
The Kaspersky Security Center application is aimed at corporate network administrators and employees responsible for
anti-virus protection in organizations.
The SPE version of the application is designed for SaaS providers (hereinafter referred to as service providers).
Using Kaspersky Security Center you can:
Create virtual Administration Servers to ensure the anti-virus protection of remote offices or networks of client
organizations.
The client organization is an organization, whose anti-virus protection is ensured by service provider.
Create a hierarchy of administration groups to ensure anti-virus protection. Administration groups allow similar
types of computers to be managed as a single unit.
Remotely install and uninstall Kaspersky Lab applications.
Centrally administer all installed Kaspersky Lab applications across the network, from a single computer.
Centrally receive and distribute, on client computers, database updates and updates to application modules of
Kaspersky Lab applications.
Receive notifications about critical events in the operation of Kaspersky Lab applications.
Receive statistics and reports about the operation of Kaspersky Lab applications.
Manage keys for installed Kaspersky Lab applications.
Centrally manage files put in Quarantine or Backup by anti-virus applications, and objects for which disinfection
has been postponed.
Centrally manage any third-party applications installed on the client computers.
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