Displaying virtual machines and SVMs in Kaspersky Security Center
January 25, 2024
ID 145545
After installation of Kaspersky Security in the virtual infrastructure, the SVMs and protected virtual machines on which Network Agent is installed will forward information about themselves to Kaspersky Security Center. By default, Kaspersky Security Center adds devices on which Kaspersky Security components are installed to the Unassigned devices folder.
In the Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console, an SVM is displayed under the name that you specified during deployment of this SVM. The name of the protected virtual machine matches the network name of the virtual machine (hostname). If a virtual machine with the same name is already registered on the Kaspersky Security Center Administration Server, a sequence number is added to the name of the new virtual machine, for example: <Name>~1, <Name>~2.
If you configured rules for moving virtual machines to administration groups prior to installing the solution, Kaspersky Security Center moves the devices on which Kaspersky Security components are installed to the specified administration groups in accordance with the configured rules for moving devices.
After installing the solution components, the SVMs and protected virtual machines send tags to Kaspersky Security Center. You can use these tags when creating rules for moving SVMs and protected virtual machines to administration groups.
The SVM sends the following tag to Kaspersky Security Center:
%VmType%=SVM – indicates that the virtual machine is an SVM.
A protected virtual machine with Kaspersky Security Center Network Agent installed sends the following tag to Kaspersky Security Center:
- %VmType%=<Persistent / Nonpersistent> – indicates whether this virtual machine is non-persistent or persistent virtual machine:
- %VmType%=Persistent – persistent virtual machine;
- %VmType%=Nonpersistent – non-persistent virtual machine.
- %KsvlaMode%=<Yes / No> – a flag that determines the mode in which Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Linux is used on the virtual machine:
- %KsvlaMode%=Yes – Kaspersky Endpoint Security is used in Light Agent mode to protect virtual environments.
- %KsvlaMode%=No – Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Linux is used in standalone mode.
You can manually move SVMs to the Managed devices administration group or nested administration groups (for more information about moving virtual machines to administration groups, see the Kaspersky Security Center Help).
