I'm new to the Kaspersky admin kit. It seems very robust and I'd like to deploy KAV at all of my clients. But I'm having trouble getting my head around the architecture from reading the admin kit guide -- which seems to assume you already know the product when you start.

Most of my difficulties center around the slave servers. Most of my clients have multiple offices each with their own server in the same domain. I simply need to setup the admin kit on each server to manage and update the a/v locally for the machines in that office with central reporting. But I can't seem to figure this all out.

I can get the admin kits installed on the various servers. I had assumed they should all point to the same database, but that doesn't seem to be the way it works so I've installed each with its own DB. And I can get the remote offices configured as slave admin servers. But how to get the workstations in each office to be managed by the local admin server still completely eludes me.

Is there some resource that explains this in simple detail?

Thanks for any help you can offer

Hello,

Each Administration Server should have its own database.
In order to implement hierarchy of servers, I advise you to read these FAQs :

http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=200967107
http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=203383644

I hope it will help you.
Regards,
DB

Thank you, that does help some.

But I'm still confused by the 'hierarchy' and specifically where the workstations should be placed in it. For example, here is an outline of what I have:

1 -- Admin Kit for main server
2 -- Network: Domains (workstations moved out of here to )
3 -- Groups
4 -- Admin Servers (nothing here)
5 -- mydomain.com
6 -- Admin Servers (nothing here)
7.1 -- office1 (workstations for office1 moved here)
7.2 -- Admin Servers
7.3 -- server for office1
8.1 -- office2 (workstations for office2 moved here)
8.2 -- Admin Servers
8.3 -- server for office2
(etc).

Under the main "groups" (line #3) I show my primary domain name. I created named groups (office1, etc.) under that for each remote office and moved the workstations in those offices out of #2 into each office's group (7.1, 8.1, etc.)

Is this correct? And since I have designated the main office server as the master at the root of this hierarchy, should I also create a separate group for that as an office of it's own, or leave those workstations under #2?

I'm sorry if these questions seem obtuse -- this would really be easier if the documentation had an example I could follow.