Preparing for centralized installation of components

On the computers where components will be centrally installed, verify that the following conditions are fulfilled:

• The computers have network access, and access over SSH is configured and open.
• The computers have user accounts with root privileges (application components will be installed under these user accounts).
• The computers do not have any user accounts or groups with the following names that are reserved for interaction between application components (if these accounts exist, they could receive elevated access rights, even root privileges, after the application is installed):
  • kics4net
  • kics4net-apm
  • kics4net-asset-config-repo
  • kics4net-asset-inventory
  • kics4net-blob-storage
  • kics4net-config-control-orchestrator
  • kics4net-connectors
  • kics4net-connectors-launcher
  • kics4net-email-gateway
  • kics4net-epp-proxy
  • kics4net-fts
  • kics4net-nats-server
  • kics4net-oval-facade
  • kics4net-postgresql
  • kics4net-report-builder
  • kics4net-report-data-source
  • kics4net-report-renderer
  • kics4net-report-tc
  • kics4net-report-tcv
  • kics4net-responses-manager
  • kics4net-risk-oval-detector
  • kics4net-scap-manager
  • kics4net-scap-manager-view
  • kics4net-scan-oval-manager
  • kics4net-scheduler
  • kics4net-secrets
  • kics4net-task-m
  • kics4net-task-mv
  • kics4net-vault
  • kics4net-websensor
  • kics4net-webserver

To prepare computers for installation of application components:

1. On all computers on which application components will be installed, set the same password for the user account with root privileges (application components will be installed under this user account). By default, the root user account is used to perform the installation. Memorize the user names and password. You will need to provide this data while the application installation script is running.

   After application components are installed, you are advised to change the passwords for these users.

2. Find out and save the following information about the computers:
   • Name and IP address of the computer that will perform Server functions.
   • IP addresses of the computers that will perform sensor functions.
   • Name or IP address and SSL port of the computer with Kaspersky Security Center.

   To display the computer name, you can enter the hostname command in the command line. To display information about IP addresses and network interfaces, you can enter the sudo ifconfig command in the command line (in a Windows® operating system, use the ipconfig command).

3. On the computer from which the centralized installation will be performed, use the SSH protocol to connect to each computer where the application components will be installed. A connection needs to be made to verify access over SSH.

   To connect:

   1. Enter the following command in the command line:

      ssh <user name>@<computer IP address>

   2. After entering this command, perform the necessary actions at the operating system prompts.
   3. To terminate the connection session, use the following command:

      exit

4. Copy the kics4net-release_<application version>.tar.gz archive from the distribution kit to the computer from which the installation will be performed.
5. Go to the folder containing the copied archive and enter the following command to unpack it:

   tar -zxvf kics4net-release_<application version>.tar.gz

The unpacked folders and files will appear in the subfolder kics4net-release_<application version>.

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