About importing and exporting settings
August 3, 2023
ID 151281
You can export Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Nodes settings to an XML configuration file and import settings into Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Nodes from the configuration file. You can save all application settings or only settings for individual components to a configuration file.
When you export all settings of Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Nodes to a file, the general application settings and settings of the following Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Nodes components and functions are saved:
- Real-Time File Protection
- KSN Usage
- Device Control
- Applications Launch Control
- Rule Generator for Device Control
- Rule Generator for Applications Launch Control
- On-Demand Scan
- PLC Project Integrity Check
- PLC Project Investigation
- Wi-Fi Control
- Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Nodes database and software modules update
- Quarantine
- Backup
- Logs
- Administrator and user notifications
- Trusted zone
- Exploit Prevention
- List of blocked network sessions
- Password protection
Also, you can save the general settings of Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Nodes in the file, as well as the rights of user accounts.
You cannot export group task settings.
Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Nodes exports all passwords used by the application, for example, account data for running tasks or connecting to a proxy server. Exported passwords are saved in encrypted form in the configuration file. You can import passwords only using Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Nodes installed on this protected device if it has not been reinstalled or updated.
You cannot import previously saved passwords using Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Nodes installed on a different protected device. After settings have been imported on protected device, all passwords must be entered manually.
If a Kaspersky Security Center policy is active at the time of export, the application exports the specified values used by that policy.
Settings from a configuration file containing parameters for individual components of Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Nodes (e.g., from a file created in Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Nodes installed with incomplete set of components) can be imported. After the settings are imported, only those Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Nodes settings that were contained in the configuration file are changed. All other settings remain the same.
Settings of an active Kaspersky Security Center policy that have been blocked do not change when importing the settings.
