Exporting and importing application settings

Kaspersky Endpoint Security allows you to export and import all application settings for troubleshooting, verifying settings, or for easier application configuring on other computers.

When exporting settings, all application and task settings are saved to a configuration file. This configuration file is used for importing settings to configure the application.

Kaspersky Endpoint Security must be started when you import or export settings. After importing settings, the application must be restarted.

If the application is managed via Kaspersky Security Center, settings importing is not available.

When importing or exporting settings from the older application version, new settings are set to default values.

Importing settings to an older application version is unavailable.

When importing application settings, the UseKSN setting is set to No. To start or resume participating in Kaspersky Security Network, you need to specify UseKSN=Basic or UseKSN=Extended.

After importing application settings, internal task IDs can be changed. We recommend to use task names to manage them.

To export application settings to a configuration file, execute the following command:

kesl-control --export-settings --file <full path to configuration file>

To configure the application using settings from a configuration file (import settings), execute the following command:

kesl-control --import-settings --file <full path to configuration file>