One Administration Server can support a maximum of 50,000 devices (with MariaDB as the DBMS). If the total number of devices on an organization's network exceeds 50,000, multiple Administration Servers must be deployed on that network and combined into a hierarchy for convenient centralized management.
If an organization includes large-scale remote local offices (branches) with their own administrators, it is useful to deploy Administration Servers in those offices. Otherwise, those offices must be viewed as detached networks connected by low-throughput channels; see section "Standard configuration: A few large-scale offices run by their own administrators".
When detached networks connected with narrow channels are used, traffic can be saved by assigning one or several Network Agents to act as distribution points (see table for calculation of the number of distribution points). In this case, all devices on a detached network retrieve updates from such local update centers. Actual distribution points can download updates both from the Administration Server (default scenario), and from Kaspersky servers on the internet (see section "Standard configuration: Multiple small remote offices").
Section "Standard configurations of Kaspersky Security Center Linux" provides detailed descriptions of the standard configurations of Kaspersky Security Center Linux. When planning the deployment, choose the most suitable standard configuration, depending on the organization's structure.
At the stage of deployment planning, the assignment of the special certificate X.509 to the Administration Server must be considered. Assignment of the X.509 certificate to the Administration Server may be useful in the following cases (partial list):