You can create the Download updates to the repositories of distribution points task for an administration group. This task will run for distribution points included in the specified administration group.
You can use this task, for example, if traffic between the Administration Server and the distribution point(s) is more expensive than traffic between the distribution point(s) and Kaspersky update servers, or if your Administration Server does not have internet access.
This task is required to download updates from Kaspersky update servers to the repositories of distribution points. The list of updates includes:
Updates to databases and software modules for Kaspersky security applications
Updates to Kaspersky Security Center components
Updates to Kaspersky security applications
After the updates are downloaded, they can be propagated to the managed devices.
To create the Download updates to the repositories of distribution points task, for a selected administration group:
In the main menu, go to Assets (Devices) → Tasks.
Click the Add button.
The New task wizard starts. Follow the steps of the wizard.
For the Kaspersky Security Center application, in the Task type field select Download updates to the repositories of distribution points.
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 ("*<>?\:|).
Select an option button to specify the administration group, the device selection, or the devices to which the task applies.
At the Finish task creation step, if you want to modify the default task settings, enable the Open task details when creation is complete option. 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.
On the Application settings tab of the task properties window, specify the following settings:
The following resources can be used as a source of updates for the distribution point:
Kaspersky update servers
HTTP(S) servers at Kaspersky from which Kaspersky applications download database and application module updates.
This option is selected by default.
Primary Administration Server
This resource applies to tasks created for a secondary or virtual Administration Server.
Local or network folder
A local or network folder that contains the latest updates. Only a mounted SMB share can be used as a network folder. When selecting a local folder, you must specify a folder on the device that has Administration Server installed.
In the Download updates to the Administration Server repository task and the Download updates to the repositories of distribution points task, user authentication does not work if you select a password-protected local or network folder as an update source. To resolve this issue, first mount the password-protected folder, and then specify the required credentials, for example, by means of the operating system. After that, you can select this folder as an update source in an update download task. Kaspersky Security Center Linux will not require that you enter the credentials.
The path to the specified folder for storing saved updates. You can copy the specified folder path to a clipboard. You cannot change the path to a specified folder for a group task.
Starting from version 14, Kaspersky Security Center Linux downloads updates of databases and software modules by using the new scheme. For the application to download updates by using the new scheme, the update source must contain the update files with the metadata compatible with the new scheme. If the update source contains the update files with the metadata compatible with the old scheme only, enable the Download updates by using the old scheme option. Otherwise, the update download task will fail.
For example, you must enable this option when a local or network folder is specified as an update source and the update files in this folder were downloaded by one of the following applications:
This utility downloads updates by using the old scheme.
Kaspersky Security Center 13 Linux
For example, a distribution point is configured to take the updates from a local or network folder. In this case, you may download updates by using an Administration Server that has an internet connection, and then place the updates to the local folder on the distribution point. If the Administration Server has version 13, enable the Download updates by using the old scheme option in the Download updates to the repositories of distribution points task.
By default, this option is disabled.
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 Linux.
By default, the task starts every day at the current system time.
The task runs after a Virus outbreak event occurs. Select application types that will monitor virus outbreaks. The following application types are available:
Anti-virus for workstations and file servers
Anti-virus for perimeter defense
Anti-virus for mail systems
By default, all application types are selected.
You may want to run different tasks depending on the security application type that reports a virus outbreak. In this case, remove the selection of the application types that you do not need.
The current task starts after another task completes. This option only works if both tasks are assigned to the same devices. For example, you may want to run the Manage devices task with the Turn on the device option and, after it completes, run the Virus scan task as a triggering task.
You have to select the triggering task from the table and the status with which this task must complete (Completed successfully or Failed).
If necessary, you can search, sort, and filter the tasks in the table as follows:
Enter the task name in the search field, to search the task by its name.
Click the sort icon to sort the tasks by name.
By default, the tasks are sorted in alphabetical ascending order.
Click the filter icon, and in the window that opens, filter the tasks by group, and then click the Apply button.
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 schedule, 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.
In addition to the settings that you specify during task creation, you can change other properties of a created task.
When the Download updates to the repositories of distribution points task is performed, updates for databases and software modules are downloaded from the update source and stored in the shared folder. Downloaded updates will only be used by distribution points that are included in the specified administration group and that have no update download task explicitly set for them.