Configuring a device selection

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To configure a device selection:

  1. In the main menu, go to DEVICES → DEVICE SELECTIONS.

    A page with a list of device selections is displayed.

  2. Select the relevant user-defined device selection, and click the Properties button.

    The Device selection settings window opens.

  3. On the General tab, click the New condition link.
  4. Specify conditions that must be met for including devices in this selection.
  5. Click the Save button.

The settings are applied and saved.

Below are descriptions of the conditions for assigning devices to a selection. Conditions are combined by using the OR logical operator: the selection will contain devices that comply with at least one of the listed conditions.

General

In the General section, you can change the name of the selection condition and specify whether that condition must be inverted:

Invert selection condition

Network infrastructure

In the Network subsection, you can specify the criteria that will be used to include devices in the selection according to their network data:

In the Active Directory subsection, you can configure criteria for including devices into a selection based on their Active Directory data:

In the Network activity subsection, you can specify the criteria that will be used to include devices in the selection according to their network activity:

Device statuses

In the Managed device status subsection, you can configure criteria for including devices into a selection based on the description of the devices status from a managed application:

In the Status of components in managed applications subsection, you can configure criteria for including devices in a selection according to the statuses of components in managed applications:

In the Status-affecting problems in managed applications subsection, you can specify the criteria that will be used to include devices in the selection according to the list of possible problems detected by a managed application. If at least one problem that you select exists on a device, the device will be included in the selection. When you select a problem listed for several applications, you have the option to select this problem in all of the lists automatically.

You can select check boxes for descriptions of statuses from the managed application; upon receipt of these statuses, the devices will be included in the selection. When you select a status listed for several applications, you have the option to select this status in all of the lists automatically.

System details

In the Operating system section, you can specify the criteria that will be used to include devices in the selection according to their operating system type.

In the Virtual machines section, you can set up the criteria to include devices in the selection according to whether these are virtual machines or part of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI):

In the Hardware registry subsection, you can configure criteria for including devices into a selection based on their installed hardware:

Ensure that the lshw utility is installed on Linux devices from which you want to fetch hardware details. Hardware details fetched from virtual machines may be incomplete depending on the hypervisor used.

Third-party software details

In the Applications registry subsection, you can set up the criteria to search for devices according to applications installed on them:

Details of Kaspersky applications

In the Kaspersky applications subsection, you can configure criteria for including devices in a selection based on the selected managed application:

In the Anti-virus protection subsection, you can set up the criteria for including devices in a selection based on their protection status:

The Application components subsection contains the list of components of those applications that have corresponding management plug-ins installed in Kaspersky Security Center 14 Web Console.

In the Application components subsection, you can specify criteria for including devices in a selection according to the statuses and version numbers of the components that refer to the application that you select:

Tags

In the Tags section, you can configure criteria for including devices into a selection based on key words (tags) that were previously added to the descriptions of managed devices:

Apply if at least one specified tag matches

To add tags to the criterion, click the Add button, and select tags by clicking the Tag entry field. Specify whether to include or exclude the devices with the selected tags in the device selection.

Users

In the Users section, you can set up the criteria to include devices in the selection according to the accounts of users who have logged in to the operating system.

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