KASPERSKY LABS Kaspersky® Administration Kit 4.5 USER GUIDE KASPERSKY® ADMINISTRATION KIT 4.5 User Guide Kaspersky Labs Ltd. Visit our web site: http://www.kaspersky.com Edition date: September 2003 Contents CHAPTER 1. KASPERSKY® ADMINISTRATION KIT .................................................. 7 1.1. What's new in version 4.5? ................................................................................... 8 1.2. Software and hardware requirements .................................................................. 9 1.3. Distribution kit ...................................................................................................... 10 1.4. Help desk for registered users ............................................................................ 10 1.5. Conventions......................................................................................................... 12 CHAPTER 2. BUILDING UP ANTI-VIRUS PROTECTION ......................................... 13 2.1. The Kaspersky Anti-Virus® logical network ........................................................ 13 2.2. Logical network addresses.................................................................................. 14 2.3. Creating a logical network................................................................................... 15 2.4. Logical network administrators. Access rights ................................................... 16 2.5. Maintaining a logical network .............................................................................. 17 2.6. Safety requirements. Joint operation of administrators...................................... 18 CHAPTER 3. INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE PACKAGE......................................... 20 3.1. Installing Kaspersky® Network Control Centre................................................... 20 3.2. Adding, reinstalling and/or uninstaling separate components ........................... 27 CHAPTER 4. GETTING STARTED.............................................................................. 28 CHAPTER 5. USER INTERFACE ................................................................................ 34 5.1. Main window........................................................................................................ 34 5.2. Menu .................................................................................................................... 35 5.3. Toolbars ............................................................................................................... 35 5.4. Network pane ...................................................................................................... 35 5.5. Shortcut menu ..................................................................................................... 36 5.6. Object property pane........................................................................................... 37 5.6.1. Tabs for groups............................................................................................. 38 5.6.2. Tabs for servers............................................................................................ 38 5.6.3. Tabs for workstations.................................................................................... 40 5.7. Info bar................................................................................................................. 42 5.8. Status bar............................................................................................................. 43 4 Kaspersky Administration Kit 5.9. Help...................................................................................................................... 43 CHAPTER 6. CREATING AND EDITING A LOGICAL NETWORK ........................... 45 6.1. Creating groups ................................................................................................... 45 6.2. Adding servers..................................................................................................... 46 6.3. Adding workstations ............................................................................................ 47 6.4. Deployment of Kaspersky Anti-Virus® on workstations ..................................... 50 6.4.1. Uploading the software to the program storage. Customizing the programs to be installed ............................................................................... 51 6.4.2. Deployment settings. Starting login script based deployment .................... 53 6.4.3. Computer based deployment....................................................................... 57 6.5. Adding objects to a logical network..................................................................... 61 6.6. Moving and removing logical network objects.................................................... 62 6.7. Searching for and renaming logical network objects ......................................... 63 CHAPTER 7. CONFIGURING A LOGICAL NETWORK ............................................. 65 7.1. General features of workstation settings ............................................................ 65 7.1.1. Copying Kaspersky Anti-Virus® settings to another workstation................. 65 7.1.2. Off­line mode. Pending application of new settings.................................... 66 7.2. Alerts and e-mail notifications from workstations and servers........................... 67 7.2.1. Alerts from workstations and their severity levels........................................ 67 7.2.2. Enabling workstations to send alerts via the supervising server................. 68 7.2.3. Forwarding alerts according to their severity level....................................... 69 7.2.4. Virus outbreak alerts..................................................................................... 71 7.2.4.1. Defining symptoms indicating a virus outbreak .................................... 72 7.2.4.2. Setting the virus outbreak alert.............................................................. 72 7.2.5. Customizing e-mail service settings............................................................. 72 7.2.5.1. Sending messages using MAPI............................................................ 73 7.2.5.2. Sending messages via SMTP............................................................... 74 7.3. Defining remote management of servers and workstations .............................. 74 7.3.1. Remote management settings..................................................................... 74 7.3.2. Security settings for remote management................................................... 75 7.3.3. Network browsing settings ........................................................................... 76 7.3.4. Specifics of setting remote management of workstations........................... 77 7.4. Setting automatic updating of anti-virus databases on workstations................. 78 7.4.1. Updating anti-virus databases from a Kaspersky AV server ...................... 78 Contents 5 7.4.2. Updating the anti-virus database storage on a server from another server on the logical network........................................................................ 81 7.5. Configuring and using the quarantine function................................................... 83 7.5.1. Quarantine types .......................................................................................... 83 7.5.2. Selecting a quarantine type.......................................................................... 84 7.5.3. Working with quarantined files ..................................................................... 85 7.5.3.1. Working with server quarantine............................................................. 85 7.5.3.2. Local quarantine .................................................................................... 88 7.6. Scheduling Kaspersky Anti-Virus® components to be automatically started on workstations .................................................................................................. 89 7.7. Exporting, importing, and printing settings.......................................................... 94 7.7.1. Exporting and printing the logical network hierarchy................................... 94 7.7.2. Exporting and importing server and workstation settings............................ 94 CHAPTER 8. ASSIGNING ACCESS RIGHTS TO OTHER USERS.......................... 96 8.1. Securing Kaspersky Anti-Virus® settings on workstations ................................. 96 8.1.1. Preventing users from changing Kaspersky Anti-Virus® settings from workstations .................................................................................................. 96 8.1.2. Synchronizing changes made by administrators and users to ® Kaspersky Anti-Virus settings..................................................................... 98 8.2. Assigning an administrator to a group ................................................................ 99 CHAPTER 9. MAINTAINING A LOGICAL NETWORK ............................................. 102 9.1. Viewing network reports.................................................................................... 102 9.2. Selecting objects of a logical network............................................................... 103 9.3. Viewing task performance results..................................................................... 106 9.4. If a workstation or a server are unavailable...................................................... 107 9.5. Receiving alerts from workstations. The Attention flag .................................... 108 9.6. Receiving e-mail from workstations .................................................................. 109 9.7. Starting tasks on workstations .......................................................................... 110 9.8. Monitoring updating progress ........................................................................... 110 9.9. Key file installation on a workstation ................................................................. 111 CHAPTER 10. ORGANIZING ADMINISTRATORS GROUP WORK....................... 113 10.1. Changing administrator names and passwords............................................. 113 10.2. Changing network access passwords to workstations and servers.............. 113 APPENDIX A. PROGRAM MENU.............................................................................. 116 A.1. The Network menu ........................................................................................... 116 6 Kaspersky Administration Kit A.2. The Edit menu................................................................................................... 117 A.3. The View menu ................................................................................................. 118 A.4. The Object menu .............................................................................................. 119 A.5. The Tools menu ................................................................................................ 120 A.6. The Help menu.................................................................................................. 120 APPENDIX B. THE PROGRAM TOOLBAR DIRECTORY ....................................... 121 B.1. The Standard toolbar ........................................................................................ 121 B.2. The Action bar................................................................................................... 122 APPENDIX C. GLOSSARY......................................................................................... 124 APPENDIX D. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ............................................... 129 APPENDIX E. KASPERSKY LABS LTD. ................................................................... 131 E.1. Other Anti-Virus products.................................................................................. 132 E.2. Contact Information........................................................................................... 134 APPENDIX F. LICENSE AGREEMENT..................................................................... 135 CHAPTER 1. KASPERSKY® ADMINISTRATION KIT Kaspersky® Administration Kit was developed specially for administrators of corporate networks or anti-virus security officers. Using this toolkit, a network administrator can manage anti-virus protection (i.e. install, configure, and update the Kaspersky Anti-Virus® software, and also quickly and efficiently deal with virus outbreaks) SIMULTANEOUSLY on all workstations of a corporate network DIRECTLY FROM THE ADMINISTRATING STATION. Kaspersky® Administration Kit enables an administrator to: · Remotely manage anti-virus settings across a corporate network. The administrator can remotely manage anti-virus tools installed on other network computers from one location. Remote management is especially important for admi ...