Kaspersky Security Center Web Console allows you to distribute a license key to client devices automatically or through the Application activation task. You can use the task to distribute keys to a specific device group. During distribution of a license key via the task, the licensing limit on the number of devices is not taken into account. Use the automatic key distribution to cease distribution of a license key automatically when the licensing limit is reached.
If you enable automatic distribution of a license key, do not create an Application activation task to distribute that key to client devices. Otherwise, the load on the Administration Server will increase due to frequent synchronization.
Before deployment, add the license key to the Administration Server repository.
To distribute a license key to client devices through the Application activation task:
The New task wizard starts. Proceed through the wizard by using the Next button.
You need to add the license key only if you did not add it to the Administration Server repository prior to creating the Application activation task.
Information about the license key appears in the key adding pane.
If you want to distribute the license key to managed devices automatically, enable the Automatically distribute license key to managed devices option.
The key adding pane closes.
Information about the license key appears in the license key adding pane.
If you want to distribute the license key to managed devices automatically, enable the Automatically distribute license key to managed devices option.
The key adding pane closes.
For example, this is needed when the organization changes, and another organization's key is required on the device; or if the key was reissued, and a new license expires earlier than the current license. To avoid errors, you have to clear the Use as a reserve key check box.
If you want to find out more information about the issues that may occur when adding a license key to Kaspersky Security Center and the ways to resolve them, refer to the Kaspersky Security Center Knowledge Base.
If you do not enable this option, the task will be created with the default settings. You can modify the default settings later.
The wizard creates the task. If you enabled the Open task details when creation is complete option, the task properties window automatically opens. In this window, you can specify the general task settings and, if required, change the settings specified during task creation.
You can also open the task properties window by clicking the name of the created task in the list of tasks.
The task is created, configured, and displayed in the list of tasks.
You can also set a task start schedule on the Schedule tab of the task properties window.
For a detailed description of scheduled start settings, refer to the general task settings.
After the task is completed, the license key is deployed to the selected devices.