KSVLA Light Agent to KES Light Agent Migration Guide

Kaspersky Security for Virtualization 5.2 Light Agent includes the Light Agent for Windows 5.2 component (hereinafter also referred to as "KSVLA Light Agent"). In Kaspersky Security for Virtualization Light Agent 6.2, Kaspersky Endpoint Security in Light Agent mode is used as the Light Agent component. To update the solution to version 6.2, you must migrate from KSVLA Light Agent 5.2 to Kaspersky Endpoint Security in Light Agent mode (hereinafter also referred to as "KES Light Agent"). For details about updating the version of the Kaspersky Security for Virtualization Light Agent solution, see the Kaspersky Security for Virtualization Light Agent Help.

Software requirements

Before you begin the migration from KSVLA Light Agent to KES Light Agent, make sure your virtual machine satisfies the hardware and software requirements of Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows. The lists of supported operating system versions are different for KES and KSWS. For example, KES does not support servers running Windows Server 2003.

Minimum software requirements for migrating from KSVLA Light Agent to KES Light Agent:

Migration steps

Migration from KSVLA Light Agent to KES Light Agent is performed semi-automatically. This is necessary because of differing architectures of the applications.

Migrate from KSVLA Light Agent to KES Light Agent in the following order:

  1. Migrate KSVLA Light Agent tasks and policies

    To migrate policy settings, you must run the Policies and tasks batch conversion wizard (the migration wizard). After migrating policy settings, you must manually configure settings that the migration wizard cannot migrate automatically (for example, database update settings). After the migration, it is also recommended to check if the migration wizard correctly migrated all settings.

    If Password protection is enabled to restrict access to KSVLA Light Agent, before installing KES Light Agent, you need to disable Password protection in the policy of KSVLA Light Agent. You cannot enter the uninstallation password in KES Light Agent installation package settings. After completing the installation of KES Light Agent on top of KSVLA Light Agent, you must enable Password protection in the KES policy.

  2. Install Kaspersky Endpoint Security in Light Agent mode

    You can install KES Light Agent in the following ways:

    • Installing KES Light Agent after removing KSVLA Light Agent (recommended)
    • Installing KES Light Agent on top of KSVLA Light Agent
  3. Confirm that the application is in working order after migration

    After migrating from KSVLA Light Agent to KES Light Agent, make sure that the application is operating correctly. Activate the converted policy. Check the status of the virtual machine in the Kaspersky Security Center console (should be OK). Make sure no errors are reported for the application, also check the time of the last connection to SVM and the virtual machine protection status. You do not need to activate Light Agent because the license key is added to the SVM.

In this section

Installing KES Light Agent instead of KSVLA Light Agent

Correspondence of KSVLA Light Agent and KES Light Agent components

Migrating KSVLA Light Agent tasks and policies

Migrating [KSVLA Light Agent+KEA] configuration to [KES Light Agent+built-in agent] configuration

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