The Download updates to the Administration Server repository task of the Administration Server is created automatically by the Kaspersky Security Center Quick Start Wizard. You can create only one Download updates to the Administration Server repository task. Therefore, you can create a Download updates to the Administration Server repository task only if this task was removed from the Administration Server tasks list.
This task is required to download updates of databases and software modules for Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Linux from Kaspersky update servers to the Administration Server repository. After the updates are downloaded, they can be propagated to the managed devices.
To create a Download updates to the Administration Server repository task:
Go to DEVICES → TASKS.
Click Add.
The New Task Wizard starts. Follow the steps of the Wizard.
For the Kaspersky Security Center application, select the Download updates to the Administration Server repository task type.
Specify the name for the task that you are creating. A task name cannot be more than 100 characters long and cannot include any special characters ("*<>?\:|).
If on the Finish task creation page you enable the Open task details when creation is complete option, you can modify the default task settings. If you do not enable this option, the task is created with the default settings. You can modify the default settings later, at any time.
Click the Create button.
The task is created and displayed in the list of tasks.
Click the name of the created task to open the task properties window.
In the task properties window, on the Application settings tab, specify the following settings:
Kaspersky update servers are used as a source of updates for the Administration Server.
HTTP(S) servers at Kaspersky from which Kaspersky applications download database and application module updates. By default, the Administration Server communicates with Kaspersky update servers and downloads updates by using the HTTPS protocol. You can configure the Administration Server to use the HTTP protocol instead of HTTPS.
If this option is enabled, the Administration Server starts the update tasks on the secondary Administration Servers as soon as new updates are downloaded. Otherwise, the update tasks on the secondary Administration Servers start according to their schedules.
After the Administration Server receives updates, it copies them to the specified folders. Use this option if you want to manually manage the distribution of updates on your network.
For example, you may want to use this option in the following situation: the network of your organization consists of several independent subnets, and devices from each of the subnets do not have access to other subnets. However devices in all of the subnets have access to a common network share. In this case, you set Administration Server in one of the subnets to download updates from Kaspersky update servers, enable this option, and then specify this network share. In downloaded updates to the repository tasks for other Administration Servers, specify the same network share as the update source.
The tasks of downloading updates to client devices and secondary Administration Servers start only after those updates are copied from the main update folder to additional update folders.
This option must be enabled if client devices and secondary Administration Servers download updates from additional network folders.
By default, this option is disabled.
In the task properties window, on the Schedule tab, create a schedule for task start. If necessary, specify the following settings:
The task runs regularly, with the specified interval in days. Additionally, you can specify a date and time of the first task run. These additional options become available, if they are supported by the application for which you create the task.
By default, the task runs every day, starting from the current system date and time.
The task runs regularly, with the specified interval in days. This schedule does not support observance of daylight saving time (DST). It means that when clocks jump one hour forward or backward at the beginning or ending of DST, the actual task start time does not change.
We do not recommend that you use this schedule. It is needed for backward compatibility of Kaspersky Security Center 13 Linux.
By default, the task starts every day at the current system time.
The current task starts after another task completes. You can select how the previous task must complete (successfully or with error) to trigger the start of the current task.
This option determines the behavior of a task if a client device is not visible on the network when the task is about to start.
If this option is enabled, the system attempts to start the task the next time the Kaspersky application is run on the client device. If the task schedule is Manually, Once or Immediately, the task is started immediately after the device becomes visible on the network or immediately after the device is included in the task scope.
If this option is disabled, only scheduled tasks run on client devices; for Manually, Once and Immediately, tasks run only on those client devices that are visible on the network. For example, you may want to disable this option for a resource-consuming task that you want to run only outside of business hours.
If this option is enabled, the task is started on client devices randomly within a specified time interval, that is, distributed task start. A distributed task start helps to avoid a large number of simultaneous requests by client devices to the Administration Server when a scheduled task is running.
The distributed start time is calculated automatically when a task is created, depending on the number of client devices to which the task is assigned. Later, the task is always started on the calculated start time. However, when task settings are edited or the task is started manually, the calculated value of the task start time changes.
If this option is disabled, the task starts on client devices according to the schedule.
If this option is enabled, the task is started on client devices randomly within the specified time interval. A distributed task start helps to avoid a large number of simultaneous requests by client devices to the Administration Server when a scheduled task is running.
If this option is disabled, the task starts on client devices according to the schedule.
By default, this option is disabled. The default time interval is one minute.
Click the Save button.
The task is created and configured.
When Administration Server performs the Download updates to the Administration Server repository task, updates to databases and software modules are downloaded from the updates source and stored in the shared folder of Administration Server. If you create this task for an administration group, it will only be applied to Network Agents included in the specified administration group.
Updates are distributed to client devices and secondary Administration Servers from the shared folder of Administration Server.