When will the 'Klactgui' utility embedded in KSC 9 be updated to use v4.1 of GSI? Options

[gprince]

We manage 15,000 nodes with two Kaspersky Security Center 9 administration servers and the majority of nodes are running Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8, so it is critical that we be able to effectively gather data from systems remotely for troubleshooting purposes.

The remote diagnostics utility (Klactgui) that can be run from KSC 9 on a system remotely is great; however, the 'Load system information' option currently leverages version 3.0 of GSI rather than the current version (v4.1)! Does anyone know of a way to update KSC 9 so that it uses v4.1 or does anyone know when this will become available?

Thanks!!

[dawinci]

We manage 15,000 nodes with two Kaspersky Security Center 9 administration servers and the majority of nodes are running Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8, so it is critical that we be able to effectively gather data from systems remotely for troubleshooting purposes.

The remote diagnostics utility (Klactgui) that can be run from KSC 9 on a system remotely is great; however, the 'Load system information' option currently leverages version 3.0 of GSI rather than the current version (v4.1)! Does anyone know of a way to update KSC 9 so that it uses v4.1 or does anyone know when this will become available?

Thanks!!

Hi gprince,

well, frankly speaking, there is actually no ETA for including GSI4 in Remote Diagnostics Utility.

Anyway, there are workarounds for using GSI4 remotely from Security Center:
* using Custom Tools (http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=206922&view=findpost&p=1649111)
* using "Task for specific computers" to execute it on multiple computers


GetSystemInfo4 does not contain any parameters which can be used for remote execution, so it's not possible by default adding it into custom tools in Security Center. A workaround has to be used, which is given by using psexec.exe utility, provided as freeware by Sysinternals. Starting psexec with appreciate switches, psexec will copy a bat file (gsi4.bat) to the client computer and executes it.
The bat file itself copies the GetSystemInfo4.exe, which is located on a hidden share, locally to %temp% and executes it on the client with correspondig switches. Using the path switch the GSI report will be written to the same hidden share and voila.. it's done.

Bat-File with errorlevel:
@echo off
set GSI=\\DC2008R2\Share$
copy %GSI%\GetSystemInfo4.exe %temp%\ /Y >NUL
if errorlevel 1 goto error1
%temp%\GetSystemInfo4.exe /quiet /qn /path=%GSI%\ /l=2
goto exit

:error1
echo.
echo Sorry, cannot copy GetSystemInfo4.exe from specified source...
echo.
echo Is the share really available from target computer?
echo Is the filename of GetSystemInfo executable correct?
echo.
echo press ENTER to exit
pause>NUL

:exit


That's it

If you need more details, please PM me.

BR,
dawinci

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[Helmut]

Hi gprince,

I got the information from dawinci that GSI4 will be implemented in CF2.

Helmut

[gprince]

dawinci and Helmut,

Thank you both for the update. Any estimated date yet on when Kaspersky expects to release CF2 for KSC9? Do we think it will be before June/July?

[Helmut]

Hopefully end of March.

[Helmut]

In the beta of CF2 is the latest version 4.1.0.425 integrated.

[gprince]

Excellent, thanks for the update Helmut.