Managing the application using Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console

This section describes Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes administration using Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console.

This description is provided for Kaspersky Security Center 12.

Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console (hereinafter also referred to as the "Administration Console") is Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in that is installed on the administrator's workstation and provides user interface for the Administration Server and Network Agent administrative services.

The Administration Console lets you remotely install and uninstall, start and stop Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes, configure application settings, and start tasks on the managed devices.

The application can be managed via the Administration Console using MMC administration plug-in for Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes.

To manage Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes operation using the Administration Console, move the computers, on which Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes is installed, to administration groups. You can create administration groups in Kaspersky Security Center before Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes installation and configure rules to automatically move the computers to administration groups. You can also manually move the computers from the Unassigned devices folder to administration groups after installing Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes (for details, refer to Kaspersky Security Center documentation).

You can perform the following actions in the Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console:

• View the protection status of devices.
• View general application settings.
• Update application databases and modules.
• Manage policies.
• Manage application tasks.

If the user account which is used to access the Administration Server does not have permissions to edit the settings of certain functional scopes, the settings of these functional scopes are not available for editing.