What is the Kaspersky Administration Kit 6.0 complex and why should I use it?

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Kaspersky Administration Kit is designed for the remote and centralized performance of key administrative tasks. It gives you complete control and management over your company's anti-virus policy, built on Kaspersky Lab products:

• Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.0 for Windows Workstations 
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.0 for Windows File Servers 
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.6 for Microsoft ISA Servers 2000 Enterprise Edition 
• Kaspersky Security 5.5 MP1 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 for Windows Workstations 
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 for Windows Servers 
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 for Windows Servers Enterprise Edition (beginning from version Kaspersky Administration Kit 6.0.1565) 
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus Mobile 6.0 Enterprise Edition  (beginning from version Kaspersky Administration Kit 6.0.1565)
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.5 MP1 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2000/2003 
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.7 for Novell Netware 
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.0 SOS 
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 SOS 
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.7 for Linux Workstations and File Servers 

The application enables administrators to:

• Install and uninstall Kaspersky Lab products remotely and centrally - Kaspersky Administration Kit 5.0 allows remote installation/uninstallation of Kaspersky Anti-Virus products for Windows workstations and file servers.

• Remotely manage parameter settings of Kaspersky Lab products and their components - Kaspersky Administration Kit centralized saves the settings of managed computers, and also controls their settings, not allowing users of protected computers to change the parameters configured by the administrator.

• Create centralized and launch the tasks remotely - Kaspersky Administration Kit allows the creation of tasks addressed to an arbitrary set of the managed products and launch these tasks either on schedule or manually.

• Efficiently manage license keys - you can install license keys for all Kaspersky Lab applications centrally and monitor how the license agreement is observed. 

• Automatically update the anti-virus database and program modules throughout a corporate network - Kaspersky Administration Kit allows you to download and save anti-virus database updates and the application modules centrally. In this case, Kaspersky Administration Kit is a major updating source for all managed products. The administrator can configure schedules for automatic updates. The administrator can also trace whether updates have been delivered on to client computers.

• Gather and register events centrally - record events from managed products in the database for further analysis and reporting. The administrator can create a unified network report on the functioning of the application and reports on the application's functioning on each computer.

• Receive notifications - you can specify a set of events based on the analysis of the events received from the managed computers and a notification can be sent in accordance with the settings of a specific network or e-mail address . The administrator can create a list of events relating to the application about which he/she would be notified. You can receive notification about the following events: virus detection or anti-virus database update was completed with an error on a client computer, a new computer has been detected in the network.