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| 33 REMOTE DEPLOYMENT AND REMOVAL OF APPLICATIONS Before you begin the installation, make sure that the hardware and software on target computers meet the system requirements (see section "Hardware and software requirements" on page 9 ). Kaspersky Administration Kit supports the following methods for installation and removal of Kaspersky Lab applications centralized installation and remote deployment via the Administration Console (as described in this section local installation individually on each computer (see section "Local installation of software" on page 90 ). Besides, you can remove incompatible applications, which may cause conflicts in the operation of Kaspersky Lab's software managed via Kaspersky Administration Kit. (see section "Remote removal of software" on page 69 ) Network Agent is a component that provides for Administration Console connection with client computers. That is why it must be installed on each computer, which will be connected to the remote centralized management system before deployment of the antivirus applications. The Network Agent is installed together with the applications during centralized software installation with the Administration Console. The computer on which the Administration Server is installed can only use the server version of the Network Agent. It is included into the Administration Server as apart which is installed and removed together with it. There is no need to install the Network Agent on that computer. The Network Agent can be installed remotely or locally like any application. Network Agents can differ depending upon the Kaspersky Lab applications that they are installed to support and control. In some cases the Network Agent can be installed locally only (for details please refer to the documentation for the corresponding applications. The Network Agent is installed on a client computer once. The interface necessary to manage applications via Kaspersky Administration Kit is provided by the corresponding management plugins. Therefore, to access the application management interface, the corresponding plugin must be installed on the administrator's workstation. During remote deployment it is installed automatically when the first installation package is created fora corresponding application. In case of local installation on a client computer, the administrator has to install the management plugin manually. Remote deployment can be performed from the administrator's workstation in the main program window of Kaspersky Administration Kit. Some Kaspersky Lab applications can be installed on client computers only locally (for details, please refer to the documentation for the corresponding applications. However, remote management via Kaspersky Administration Kit will be available for those applications. For remote software installation, create a deployment task (see section "Creating a deployment task" on page 35 ) of the following types task for selection of computers – to install an application on all managed computers, on computers of several administration groups or on individual computers from different groups group task – to install software on all client computers of a certain administration group (all its child groups and slave Servers. To create a group task or global task, you can use the Remote Installation Wizard (see section "Remote Installation Wizard" on page 61 ). |