Creating Kaspersky Endpoint Agent activation tasks
29 May 2023
ID 200386
This section 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.
You can activate Kaspersky Endpoint Agent using a license key from the Kaspersky Security Center key store. For detailed information on managing license keys using Kaspersky Security Center, refer to the Kaspersky Security Center Help.
To create Kaspersky Endpoint Agent activation task:
- In the main Kaspersky Security Center Web Console window select Devices → Tasks.
- Click the Add button.
The task creation wizard will start.
- In the Application drop-down list, select Kaspersky Endpoint Agent.
- In the Task type drop-down list, select Activation of Application.
- In the Task name field, specify the display name of the task.
- To create a task for devices of a specific Administration Server group, perform the following actions:
- In the Selecting devices to which the task is assigned group of settings, select the Group of devices option and click Next.
- Select the desired Administration Server group and click Next.
- To create a task for specific devices using a range of IP addresses, NetBIOS names, DNS names, or to select devices from the list of devices detected in the network by the Administration Server, perform the following actions:
- In the Selecting devices to which the task is assigned group of settings, select the Selected or imported from the list option and click Next.
- Add devices to the list by the required criteria and click Next.
- To create a task for devices of a specific selection, perform the following actions:
- In the Selecting devices to which the task is assigned group of settings, select the Selection option and click Next.
- Select the desired selection from the list and click Next.
- In the Select a license key window, select the required license key from the list of Kaspersky Security Center keys available in the key storage.
- If you want to add this license key as an additional one to automatically renew the license, select the Use as an additional key check box.
- Click Next.
- In the Selecting an account to run a task window, select the desired account and click Next.
- To change the default values of the task settings immediately after its creation, select the Open task details when creation is complete check box on the Finish task creation page.
- Click Finish.
The task will be created and displayed in the list of tasks.
You can start the created task manually or configure a scheduled task start.