Activating operating system and application images in Sandbox Storage

You can create a virtual machine with non-activated images of Windows 7 (64-bit), Windows 10 (64-bit) and applications required by the Sandbox component and activate them using your own license code after installing the virtual machine.

Windows images and the Microsoft Office suite can be activated using the kata_images.py file. This file is part of the distribution kit.

Correct activation of Windows images and the Microsoft Office suite requires Internet access. Make sure Internet access is configured correctly.

During the activation procedure in the Dashboard section, the Central Node alerts you to a self-diagnostics error of Sandbox. After successful activation, the Sandbox self-diagnostics error is no longer displayed. During activation, objects are not sent to Sandbox for scanning.

To activate Windows images and the Microsoft Office suite:

  1. Make sure that virtual machines with non-activated images of Windows 7 (64-bit), Windows 10 (64-bit) and the Microsoft Office suite are created and installed.
  2. Use SSH to place the kata_images.py file on the Sandbox server:

    scp ./kata_images.py admin@<IP address of the Sandbox server>:

  3. Log in to the management console of the server with the Sandbox component via the SSH protocol or through a terminal.
  4. When the system prompts you, enter the administrator user name and the password that was set during the installation of the application.

    The administrator menu of the Sandbox server is displayed.

  5. In the application administrator menu, select Technical Support Mode.
  6. Press ENTER.

    This opens the Technical Support Mode confirmation window.

  7. Select Yes and press ENTER.
  8. Activate the Windows images and the Microsoft Office suite by running the following sequence of commands:
    1. cd /var/opt/kaspersky/apt/files
    2. sudo -s
    3. ./kata_images.py activate --vm_id Win7_x64 --component Win7 --key <Windows 7 64 bit activation code>
    4. ./kata_images.py activate --vm_id Win7_x64 --component Office2010 --key <Microsoft Office 2010 activation code>
    5. ./kata_images.py activate --vm_id Win10_x64 --component Win10 --key <Windows 10 64 bit activation code>
    6. ./kata_images.py activate --vm_id Win10_x64 --component Office2016 --key <Microsoft Office 2016 activation code>

    The activation code has the following format: XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX.

  9. Create recovery points for virtual machines with added license keys:

    ./kata_images.py snapshot --vm_ids Win7_x64,Win10_x64

    The process may take some time.

  10. Make sure the Dashboard section of the application web interface does not display any warnings about the Sandbox component not working.

Windows images and the Microsoft Office suite are activated. You must activate images of Windows operating systems and the Microsoft Office application suite on all Sandbox servers.

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