Configuring Kaspersky Endpoint Agent connection settings to a proxy server
13 September 2022
ID 199759
This Help provides information related to Kaspersky Endpoint Agent for Windows. This information may be partially or completely inapplicable to Kaspersky Endpoint Agent for Linux. For complete information about Kaspersky Endpoint Agent for Linux, please refer to the Help of the solution that includes the application: Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform or Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response.
Proxy server connection settings are used for updating databases, activating the application, and external services.
If you want to Use proxy server with the specified settings when connecting to KATA, Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Networks or Kaspersky Sandbox server, make sure that the Connect using the proxy server if specified in the general settings option is selected when configuring integration with KATA, Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Networks or Kaspersky Sandbox. This option is not selected by default.
To configure proxy server connection settings:
- Do one of the following:
- In the Application settings section select the Security settings subsection.
- Select one of the following proxy service usage options:
- Do not use proxy server.
- Automatically detect proxy server address.
- Use proxy server with specified settings.
- If you select the Automatically detect proxy server address option, the proxy server for further telemetry transmission is detected automatically.
- If you select the Use proxy server with specified settings option, specify the address and port of the proxy server you want to connect to in the Server name or IP address and Port fields.
The default port number is 8080.
- If you want to use NTLM authentication for connecting to the proxy server:
- Select the Use NTLM authentication by user name and password check box.
- In the User name field, enter the name of the user, whose account will be used for proxy server authentication.
- In the Password field, enter the password for connecting to the proxy server.
You can make password characters visible by clicking Show to the right of the Password field.
- If you do not want to use the proxy server for internal addresses of your organization, select the Bypass proxy server for local addresses check box.
- If you configure the policy settings, in the upper right corner of the group of settings, change the switch from Undefined to Enforce.
- Click OK.
- In the policy properties window, click Save.
Proxy server connection settings are configured.