Kaspersky Administration Kit 6.0 Manual
Kaspersky Administration Kit 6.0 Manual
Kaspersky Administration Kit 6.0 Manual
KASPERSKY LAB
Kaspersky® Administration Kit
Version 6.0
Remote Installation
Contents
1. INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................... 3
1.1 Kaspersky Administration Kit and Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE 2000)…………………….. 3
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Kaspersky Administration Kit and Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE 2000)
Kaspersky® Administration Kit is a dynamic and flexible tool for centralized management of
Kaspersky Lab applications on a corporate network. It gives you complete control over your
enterprise antivirus policy.
Kaspersky Administration Kit was expressly designed to meet the needs of networks of any size or
complexity. This tool enables central administration of dynamic networks that number tens of
thousands of nodes, extending to remote access and laptop users.
MSDE (Microsoft Data Engine), MySQL server or Microsoft SQL server is used to store the
Administration Server information. If no MSDE or SQL server is installed, you have to install one of
them before installing the Administration Server. In order to do it, you can use the distribution
packages you have.
Administration Server
• Software requirements:
• Hardware requirements:
• 128 MB RAM
Administration Console
• Software requirements:
2003 or higher; Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 and above, Microsoft Windows
NT 4 SP 6a or higher, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista x64;
• To work with Microsoft Windows NT4 you need Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
installed
• Hardware requirements:
• At least 64 MB RAM
Before starting the installation, make sure that the computer meets the software and hardware
requirements to the Administration Server:
Double clicking the MSDE setup package to run the MSDE setup wizard.
Double click the Admin Kit setup package to run the setup wizard.
Set the Administration Server Address (static IP address) and click ‘Next’ to continue.
Choose to Create new certificate and save certificate’s backup copy. Click ‘Next’ to continue.
Go to Control Panel > Windows Firewall > Advanced tab > Settings. Under Services tab, you can see
port opened under Kasperksy Administration Kit service.
Click Start > All Programs > Kaspersky Administration Kit and launch the program.
Click ‘Ok’
Upon launching for the first time, you will be prompt to Run Quick Start Wizard.
Click ‘Next’
Click ‘Next’
Enter e-mail account and SMTP server address. Click ‘Next’ to continue
Click Next to let Admin Kit to create default policy and task for Workstation Anti-Virus.
Expand the tree view and click Groups > Policies and Delete the all the policies inside
Import in all the policy one by one which is available inside Installation CD > Adminkit 6 > v6 Policies
After importing the entire task, you need to Activate the policy for each of the task one by one.
Network Agent Policy – Define the size event log and uninstall password protection.
v6 File Server Policy – Define setting/policy for Windows File Servers Anti-Virus.
Import in all the 8 task one by one which is available inside Installation CD > Adminkit 6 > v6 Tasks
Inside Global task, right click Download updates task and select Properties
Tick all update types except for last four below (Content Filtration Database) and click ‘Ok’
If your network using proxy server for Internet access, under Settings tab, click Properties
Tick Use proxy server and fill proxy server information and click ‘Ok’
Go to General tab and click Apply. Click Start to download updates task
Download updates task establish connection to Kaspersky Lab update server and downloading the
available updates. Wait till the download update task Completes 100 %.
Click Remote Install, you will be able to see that version 6 Kaspersky Network Agent package has
been created automatically. You have to create an installation package for workstation v6.
Right click anywhere near the remote install window and select New> Installation Package.
Click ‘Next’.
Click Browse.
Browse to the workstation 6 installation folder located and the CD and select kav6.kpd and Open.
You will be able to see the version and the package that you are creating. Click ‘Next’.
Make sure the license key is loaded, if not you need to browse to open your license key. Click ‘Next’.
Click ‘Next’.
Click ‘Finish’.
Click on Properties tab. Select All the task at the Task to be installed section. Also only select the
only required protection component to be installed in your corporate organization and click ‘OK’.
Click on Os Reboot tab and configure the action as shown in the above image. This would prompt a
message at the workstation when the deployment has completed. Click ‘OK’ to close the installation
package properties.
Click on Global Task, right click and select New > Task.
Click ‘Next’.
Click ‘Next’. If you are reinstalling workstation 6 package onto a workstation, you should deselect
the Do not install application if it is already installed.
For the additional package to install, select the Network Agent v6 and click ‘Next’.
Click ‘Next’.
Select the workstation(s) that you would want to deploy the workstation and network agent v6
package.
Select Specified account and specify user account. The user account must have Administrator
privilege. Click ‘Next’.
Click ‘Finish’.
Click Global Task > Right click the push install task and select Properties.
Click ‘Start’.
To see more about the process, right click on the Running process and select Properties
Here it shows the “Remote installation has successfully finished on host. Waiting for reboot”
Workstation(s) that you deploy will be prompted with this pop-up by the Kaspersky Administration
Kit.
After the deployment has been completed, you will be able to see the application status of the
workstation(s) in your network.
Please refer to Network Agent Manual to provide communication between Kaspersky Anti-Virus and
Kaspersky Administration Kit for centralize management purpose.