Starting and stopping the application
January 20, 2022
ID 194599
By default, Kaspersky Endpoint Security starts automatically when the operating system is booted (at the default level of execution for each operating system). Kaspersky Endpoint Security starts all service tasks as well as custom tasks whose schedule settings is set to PS.
If you stop Kaspersky Endpoint Security, all running tasks will be interrupted. After restarting Kaspersky Endpoint Security, the interrupted custom tasks will not be automatically resumed. Only those custom tasks whose schedule settings is set to PS, will be restarted.
The application status is monitored by the watchdog service. The watchdog service is automatically started on the application start.
To start Kaspersky Endpoint Security, execute the following command:
/etc/init.d/kesl-supervisor start
To stop Kaspersky Endpoint Security, execute the following command:
/etc/init.d/kesl-supervisor stop
To restart Kaspersky Endpoint Security, execute the following command:
/etc/init.d/kesl-supervisor restart
To display the status of Kaspersky Endpoint Security, execute the following command:
/etc/init.d/kesl-supervisor status
To start Kaspersky Endpoint Security in the systemd system, execute the following command:
systemctl start kesl-supervisor
To stop Kaspersky Endpoint Security in the systemd system, execute the following command:
systemctl stop kesl-supervisor
To restart Kaspersky Endpoint Security in the systemd system, execute the following command:
systemctl restart kesl-supervisor
To display the status of Kaspersky Endpoint Security in the systemd system, execute the following command:
systemctl status kesl-supervisor
