Managing the application using Kaspersky Security Center

Kaspersky Security Center allows you to remotely and centrally manage the operation of Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes on client devices. You can remotely install and remove, start, and stop Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes; configure settings for the application as well as for the individual components and tasks of the application; and start and stop tasks on the managed devices.

You can use the following Kaspersky Security Center administration consoles to manage Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes via Kaspersky Security Center:

• Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console (hereinafter also referred to as Administration Console). This is a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in that is installed on the administrator's workstation and provides a user interface for the Administration Server and Network Agent administrative services.

  The interface for managing Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes via the Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console is provided by the MMC administration plug-in for the MMC-based Administration Console (hereinafter also referred to as MMC plug-in).

  This Help describes how to manage the Administration Console of Kaspersky Security Center 14.2 Windows.

• Kaspersky Security Center Web Console (hereinafter also referred to as Web Console). This is a web interface for managing a protection system based on Kaspersky applications. You can work in Kaspersky Security Center Web Console using a browser on any device that has access to the Administration Server.

  The interface for managing Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes via the Kaspersky Security Center Web Console is provided by a web administration plug-in (hereinafter also referred to as the web plug-in).

  This Help describes how to manage the Web Console of Kaspersky Security Center 15.1 Linux.

The MMC plug-in and the web plug-in allow you to create policies and tasks in Kaspersky Security Center for managing Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes:

• A policy is a set of settings that is applied on all devices in an administration group. Policies allow you to apply identical application settings to all client devices within an administration group.

  A set of devices combined in Kaspersky Security Center in accordance with the functions they perform and the set of Kaspersky applications installed on them. Devices are grouped to simplify administration as the group of devices can be managed as a single entity. An administration group can include other groups. For each application installed in the administration group, group policies and group tasks can be created.

  The Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes policy defines the general settings of Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes and the settings of its individual functional components on devices where the policy is applied.

• Tasks for Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes created in Kaspersky Security Center run on the protected devices and realize Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes functions such as on-demand scan, application activation, and updates to the databases and modules of the application.

  In Kaspersky Security Center, you can create tasks to be performed on an individual device (local tasks), tasks for all devices in the administration group (group tasks), or tasks for a random selection of devices (tasks for sets of devices).

Regardless of the Kaspersky Security Center administration console that you use, you must assign the devices on which Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes is installed to administration groups in order to manage Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes on these devices using Kaspersky Security Center. You can create administration groups in Kaspersky Security Center before Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes installation and configure rules to automatically move the devices to administration groups. You can also manually move the devices to the administration groups after installing Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes (for details, refer to Kaspersky Security Center documentation).

In this section About administration plug-ins for Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes Kaspersky Security Center policies About tasks for Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes created in Kaspersky Security Center Logging in and out of the Web Console Managing policies in the Web Console Managing policies in the Administration Console Managing tasks in the Web Console Managing tasks in the Administration Console

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