Creating the Download updates to the Administration Server repository task

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The Download updates to the Administration Server repository task allows you to download updates of databases and software modules for Kaspersky security applications from Kaspersky update servers to the Administration Server repository.

The Kaspersky Security Center quick start wizard automatically creates the Download updates to the Administration Server repository task of the Administration Server. In the task list, there can only be one Download updates to the Administration Server repository task. You can create this task again if it is removed from the task list of the Administration Server.

After the Download updates to the Administration Server repository task is complete and the updates are downloaded, they can be propagated to the managed devices.

Before you distribute updates to the managed devices, you can run the Update verification task. This allows you to make sure that Administration Server installs the downloaded updates properly and a security level is not decreased because of the updates. To verify them before distributing, configure the Run update verification option in the Download updates to the Administration Server repository task settings.

To create a Download updates to the Administration Server repository task:

1. In the main menu, go to Assets (Devices) → Tasks.
2. Click Add.

   The New task wizard starts. Follow the steps of the wizard.

3. For the Kaspersky Security Center application, select the Download updates to the Administration Server repository task type.
4. Specify the name for the task that you are creating. A task name cannot be more than 100 characters long and cannot include any special characters ("*<>?\:|).
5. On the Finish task creation page, you can enable the Open task details when creation is complete option to open the task properties window and modify the default task settings. Otherwise, you can configure task settings later, at any time.
6. Click the Finish button.

   The task is created and displayed in the task list.

7. Click the created task name to open the task properties window.
8. In the task properties window, on the Application settings tab, specify the following settings:
   • Sources of updates

     As a source of updates, you can use Kaspersky update servers, a local or network folder, or a primary Administration Server.

     In the Download updates to the Administration Server repository task and the Download updates to the repositories of distribution points task, user authentication does not work if you select a password-protected local or network folder as an update source. To resolve this issue, first mount the password-protected folder, and then specify the required credentials, for example, by means of the operating system. After that, you can select this folder as an update source in an update download task. Kaspersky Security Center Linux will not require that you enter the credentials.

   • Folder for storing updates

     The path to the specified folder for storing saved updates. You can copy the specified folder path to a clipboard. You cannot change the path to a specified folder for a group task.

   • Force update of secondary Administration Servers

     If this option is enabled, the Administration Server starts the update tasks on the secondary Administration Servers as soon as new updates are downloaded. Otherwise, the update tasks on the secondary Administration Servers start according to their schedules.

     By default, this option is disabled.

   • Copy downloaded updates to additional folders

     After the Administration Server receives updates, it copies them to the specified folders. Use this option if you want to manually manage the distribution of updates on your network.

     For example, you may want to use this option in the following situation: the network of your organization consists of several independent subnets, and devices from each of the subnets do not have access to other subnets. However devices in all of the subnets have access to a common network share. In this case, you set Administration Server in one of the subnets to download updates from Kaspersky update servers, enable this option, and then specify this network share. In downloaded updates to the repository tasks for other Administration Servers, specify the same network share as the update source.

     By default, this option is disabled.

   • Download diff files

     This option enables the downloading diff files feature.

     By default, this option is disabled.

   • Download updates by using the old scheme

     Starting from version 14, Kaspersky Security Center Linux downloads updates of databases and software modules by using the new scheme. For the application to download updates by using the new scheme, the update source must contain the update files with the metadata compatible with the new scheme. If the update source contains the update files with the metadata compatible with the old scheme only, enable the Download updates by using the old scheme option. Otherwise, the update download task will fail.

     For example, you must enable this option when a local or network folder is specified as an update source and the update files in this folder were downloaded by one of the following applications:

     • Kaspersky Update Utility

       This utility downloads updates by using the old scheme.

     • Kaspersky Security Center 13 Linux

       For example, your Administration Server 1 does not have an internet connection. In this case, you may download updates by using an Administration Server 2 that has an internet connection, and then place the updates to a local or network folder to use it as an update source for the Administration Server 1. If the Administration Server 2 has version 13, enable the Download updates by using the old scheme option in the task for the Administration Server 1.

     By default, this option is disabled.

   • Run update verification

     Administration Server downloads updates from the source, saves them to a temporary repository, and runs the task defined in the Update verification task field. If the task completes successfully, the updates are copied from the temporary repository to a shared folder on the Administration Server and then distributed to all devices for which the Administration Server acts as the source of updates (tasks with the When new updates are downloaded to the repository schedule type are started). The task of downloading updates to the repository is finished only after completion of the Update verification task.

     By default, this option is disabled.

9. In the task properties window, on the Schedule tab, create a schedule for task start. If necessary, specify the following settings:
   • Scheduled start:
     • Manually (selected by default)

       The task does not run automatically. You can only start it manually.

       By default, this option is enabled.

     • Every N minutes

       The task runs regularly, with the specified interval in minutes, starting from the specified time on the day that the task is created.

       By default, the task runs every 30 minutes, starting from the current system time.

     • Every N hours

       The task runs regularly, with the specified interval in hours, starting from the specified date and time.

       By default, the task runs every six hours, starting from the current system date and time.

     • Every N days

       The task runs regularly, with the specified interval in days. Additionally, you can specify a date and time of the first task run. These additional options become available, if they are supported by the application for which you create the task.

       By default, the task runs every day, starting from the current system date and time.

     • Every N weeks

       The task runs regularly, with the specified interval in weeks, on the specified day of week and at the specified time.

       By default, the task runs every Monday at the current system time.

     • Daily (daylight saving time is not supported)

       The task runs regularly, with the specified interval in days. This schedule does not support observance of daylight saving time (DST). It means that when clocks jump one hour forward or backward at the beginning or ending of DST, the actual task start time does not change.

       We do not recommend that you use this schedule. It is needed for backward compatibility of Kaspersky Security Center Linux.

       By default, the task starts every day at the current system time.

     • Weekly

       The task runs every week on the specified day and at the specified time.

     • By days of week

       The task runs regularly, on the specified days of week, at the specified time.

       By default, the task runs every Friday at 6:00:00 PM.

     • Monthly

       The task runs regularly, on the specified day of the month, at the specified time.

       In months that lack the specified day, the task runs on the last day.

       By default, the task runs on the first day of each month, at the current system time.

     • Every month on specified days of selected weeks

       The task runs regularly, on the specified days of each month, at the specified time.

       By default, no days of month are selected; the default start time is 6:00:00 PM.

     • On completing another task

       The current task starts after another task completes. You can select how the previous task must complete (successfully or with error) to trigger the start of the current task. This parameter only works if both tasks are assigned to the same devices.

   • Additional task settings:
     • Run missed tasks

       This option determines the behavior of a task if a client device is not visible on the network when the task is about to start.

       If this option is enabled, the system attempts to start the task the next time the Kaspersky application is run on the client device. If the task schedule is Manually, Once or Immediately, the task is started immediately after the device becomes visible on the network or immediately after the device is included in the task scope.

       If this option is disabled, only scheduled tasks run on client devices; for Manually, Once and Immediately, tasks run only on those client devices that are visible on the network. For example, you may want to disable this option for a resource-consuming task that you want to run only outside of business hours.

       By default, this option is enabled.

     • Use automatically randomized delay for task starts

       If this option is enabled, the task is started on client devices randomly within a specified time interval, that is, distributed task start. A distributed task start helps to avoid a large number of simultaneous requests by client devices to the Administration Server when a scheduled task is running.

       The distributed start time is calculated automatically when a task is created, depending on the number of client devices to which the task is assigned. Later, the task is always started on the calculated start time. However, when task settings are edited or the task is started manually, the calculated value of the task start time changes.

       If this option is disabled, the task starts on client devices according to the schedule.

     • Use randomized delay for task starts within an interval of (min)

       If this option is enabled, the task is started on client devices randomly within the specified time interval. A distributed task start helps to avoid a large number of simultaneous requests by client devices to the Administration Server when a scheduled task is running.

       If this option is disabled, the task starts on client devices according to the schedule.

       By default, this option is disabled. The default time interval is one minute.

     • Stop the task if it runs longer than (min)

       After the specified time period expires, the task is stopped automatically, whether it is completed or not.

       Enable this option if you want to interrupt (or stop) tasks that take too long to execute.

       By default, this option is disabled. The default task execution time is 120 minutes.

10. Click the Save button.

The task is created and configured.

When Administration Server performs the Download updates to the Administration Server repository task, updates to databases and software modules are downloaded from the updates source and stored in the shared folder of Administration Server. If you create this task for an administration group, it will only be applied to Network Agents included in the specified administration group.

Updates are distributed to client devices and secondary Administration Servers from the shared folder of Administration Server.