Kaspersky Scan Engine

Monitoring Kaspersky Scan Engine in HTTP mode

Monitoring Kaspersky Scan Engine in Linux

When monitoring is enabled, the kavhttpd service automatically restarts if it freezes or crashes.

If logging is enabled along with monitoring, the monitoring process writes log messages to a separate file.

To enable monitoring:

1. Set the USE_WATCHDOG parameter in the HTTP mode init script to 1.
2. Restart Kaspersky Scan Engine.

For more information about editing the init script, see section "Changing variables in the HTTP mode init script".

Monitoring Kaspersky Scan Engine in Windows

The watchdog functionality is not supported in the service mode in Windows systems, but you can enable Windows to automatically restart the kavhttpd service after a crash.

To enable Windows to automatically restart the kavhttpd service process after a crash:

1. Log in to a user account that has local administrator rights.
2. Open the Services system utility. The exact way to do this depends on the operating system.
3. Right-click the kavhttpd service. The service is called Kaspersky ScanEngine if you installed Kaspersky Scan Engine by using the installer, or KAV HTTP for Windows if you registered it as a service manually.

   A context menu appears.

4. Select the Properties item.

   The Properties window opens.

5. Select the Recovery tab.
6. Select the Restart the Service option in the First failure, Second failure, and Subsequent failures drop-down lists.