Kaspersky Administration Kit 6.0 MP1/MP2

Kaspersky Administration Kit gives the administrator a wide range of possibilities to view results of the local, group or global tasks execution.

Parameters to save the messages and to send notifications can be set on the Notification tab of any task.

Saving the results

Results of the task execution can be saved: 

• in the Administration Server database 
• on a client computer 
• in Windows Event Log 
• on a computer with the installed Administration Server 
• on a client computer

At the same time you can restrict size of the stored messages and register the following results: 

• results of the task execution (the Save execution result only variant)

Result of the task execution is its status - "Completed/Failed". 

• results of the task execution and information of the task execution process can be registered if this information is transferred to the Administration Server by the product which executes the task (the Save events related to task execution process variant).

For example, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 for Windows Workstations does not transfer to the Server detailed information about which files were downloaded during the update process; i.e. these data will not be displayed in the task result window; but will be available in the update task report of the Administration Server 

• all possible messages which appear during the task execution (such as Pending, Changed, Running, etc) (the Save all events variant).

How to know results of the task execution?

All events which are stored on the Administration Server are available to be viewed in the Events node in the Administration Console. To view the results of a selected task, open the task on the General tab and click the Results button.

If you have set Store events locally in order to save the results, then to see these results you should install Administration Console on this computer (without the Administration Server) and in the system registry change the value of the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\KasperskyLab\Components\34 to ShowLocalComputer = 1 (DWORD). Key change will enable display of the Localhost node in the Console. To view results of the task execution open the Local computer node > Manage Tasks > choose the necessary task  > click the Results button.

You can view the information via My Computer > Manage> Event Viewer.

How to set notifications about results of the task execution?

You can choose how to notify about results of the task execution on the Notification tab of any task in the Notify administrator section. You can get notifications about any result of the task execution or about errors only. In order to get notifications about errors only check Notify of errors only.

Administrator can be notified the following way: 

• by e-mail 
• using NET SEND, 
• running executable on a computer – Administration Server

Usually parameters to send notifications (data of the mail server, target computers to be notified by NET SEND, path to the executable) are set once in the Administration Server properties on the Notification tab and in future these data are used as default settings in all tasks and policies. But if the notification parameters were not set centralized or the set parameters should be changed – they can be changed separately for a selected task.

For it in a necessary task on the Notification tab click the Properties button. In the open Properties window in a drop-down list select the required notification method and enter the necessary parameters.

By default the task uses parameters set in the Administration Server properties on the Notification tab and exactly these data are imaged in the Properties window. In order to get access to change these settings uncheck Use Administration Server settings

Notification text is the same for all notification types!

IP-address computer name in MS Windows network (NetBIOS-name) can be set as an address of a mail server. Addresses of target computers notified by NET SEND are entered in the same format. Several addresses can be set separated by a comma or by semicolon.