Creating the Download updates to the Administration Server repository task

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The Download updates to the Administration Server repository task allows you to download updates of databases and software modules for Kaspersky security applications from Kaspersky update servers to the Administration Server repository.

The Kaspersky Security Center quick start wizard automatically creates the Download updates to the Administration Server repository task of the Administration Server. In the task list, there can only be one Download updates to the Administration Server repository task. You can create this task again if it is removed from the task list of the Administration Server.

After the Download updates to the Administration Server repository task is complete and the updates are downloaded, they can be propagated to the managed devices.

Before you distribute updates to the managed devices, you can run the Update verification task. This allows you to make sure that Administration Server installs the downloaded updates properly and a security level is not decreased because of the updates. To verify them before distributing, configure the Run update verification option in the Download updates to the Administration Server repository task settings.

To create a Download updates to the Administration Server repository task:

  1. In the main menu, go to Assets (Devices) → Tasks.
  2. Click Add.

    The New task wizard starts. Follow the steps of the wizard.

  3. For the Kaspersky Security Center application, select the Download updates to the Administration Server repository task type.
  4. 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 ("*<>?\:|).
  5. On the Finish task creation page, you can enable the Open task details when creation is complete option to open the task properties window and modify the default task settings. Otherwise, you can configure task settings later, at any time.

    Finishing task creation

    Finishing task creation

  6. Click the Finish button.

    The task is created and displayed in the task list.

  7. Click the created task name to open the task properties window.
  8. In the task properties window, on the Application settings tab, specify the following settings:
    • Sources of updates
    • Folder for storing updates
    • Force update of secondary Administration Servers
    • Copy downloaded updates to additional folders
    • Download diff files
    • Download updates by using the old scheme
    • Run update verification
  9. In the task properties window, on the Schedule tab, create a schedule for task start. If necessary, specify the following settings:
    • Start task:
      • Manually (selected by default)
      • Every N minutes
      • Every N hours
      • Every N days
      • Every N weeks
      • Daily (daylight saving time is not supported)
      • Weekly
      • By days of week
      • Monthly
      • Every month on specified days of selected weeks
      • On completing another task
    • Additional task settings:
      • Run missed tasks
      • Use automatically randomized delay for task starts
      • Use automatically randomized delay for task starts within an interval of
      • Stop the task if it runs longer than
  10. 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.

See also:

Scenario: Regular updating Kaspersky databases and applications

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