Starting and stopping tasks

Starting and stopping tasks in the Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console

In Kaspersky Security Center, you can start or stop the task at any time irrespective of the selected task run mode.

To start or stop a task in the Administration Console:

1. Open Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console.
2. Do one of the following:
   • To start or stop a task created for SVMs or virtual machines within the selected administration group, select the folder with the name of this administration group in the console tree and in the workspace select the Tasks tab.
   • To start or stop a task created for one or more SVMs or virtual machines (tasks for a set of devices), select the Tasks folder in the console tree.
3. In the list of tasks, select the required task, open the context menu of the task, and select the action you want to perform.

For the Virus scan task, the Pause and Resume actions are available in addition to starting and stopping. On the virtual machines with Light Agent for Windows installed, automatic pause of the task execution at the specified time is also available.

Starting and stopping tasks in the Light Agent for Windows local interface

In the local interface, you can start or stop a task at any time irrespective of the selected task run mode if the display of local tasks and management of those tasks is not blocked by the Light Agent for Windows policy.

The Virus scan task can be started or stopped in Kaspersky Security Center.

To start or stop a task in the local interface:

1. On the protected virtual machine, open the main application window.
2. Select the Protection and Control tab.
3. Open the Manage tasks section.

   If some tasks are absent from the section, this means that the display and management of local tasks is denied by the policy for all protected virtual machines of the administration group. You can enable or disable the display and management of local tasks in the Light Agent for Windows policy (Advanced settings subsection in the Other settings) section.

4. Select the task you want to start or stop, open the task context menu and select the desired action.

   If you have started a task, the task progress status that is displayed on the right of the name of the task changes to Running.

   If you have stopped a task, the task progress status changes to Stopped.

You can configure the task to be automatically paused at a specified time.

You can also run a custom scan of any file by selecting Scan for viruses in the Windows context menu.