Creating a report delivery task

Reports can be emailed. Delivery of reports in Kaspersky Security Center is carried out using the report delivery task.

To create a delivery task for a single report:

1. In the console tree, select the node with the name of the required Administration Server.
2. In the workspace of the node, select the Reports tab.
3. In the list of report templates, select the report template that you need.
4. In the context menu of the selected report template, select Deliver reports.

The Report Delivery Task Creation Wizard starts. Follow the instructions of the Wizard.

To create a delivery task for multiple reports:

1. In the console tree, under the node with the name of the required Administration Server, select the Tasks folder.
2. In the workspace of the Tasks folder, click the Create a task button.

The Add Task Wizard starts. Follow the instructions of the Wizard.

The newly created report delivery task is displayed in the Tasks folder in the console tree.

The report delivery task is created automatically if the email settings were specified during Kaspersky Security Center installation.

Step 1. Selecting the task type

In the Select the task type window, in the list of tasks select Deliver reports as the task type.

Click Next to proceed to the next step.

Step 2. Selecting the report type

In the Select report type window, in the list of task creation templates, select the type of report.

Click Next to proceed to the next step.

Step 3. Actions on a report

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In the Action to apply to reports window, specify the following settings:

• Send reports by email

  If this option is enabled, the application sends generated reports by email.

  You can configure the report sending by email by clicking the Email notification settings link. The link is available if this option is enabled.

  If this option is disabled, the application saves reports in the specified folder to store them.

  By default, this option is disabled.

• Save reports to shared folder

  If this option is enabled, the application saves reports to the folder that is specified in the field under the check box. To save reports to a shared folder, specify the UNC path to the folder. In this case, in the Selecting an account to run the task window, you must specify the user account and password for accessing this folder.

  If this option is disabled, the application does not save reports to the folder and sends them by email instead.

  By default, this option is disabled.

• Overwrite older reports of the same type

  If this option is enabled, the new report file at each task startup overwrites the file that was saved in the reports folder at the previous task startup.

  If this option is disabled, report files will not be overwritten. A new report file is stored in the reports folder at each task run.

  This check box is available, if the Save report to folder is selected.

  By default, this option is disabled.

• Specify account for access to shared folder

  If this option is enabled, you can specify the account under which the report will be saved to the folder. If a UNC path to a shared folder is specified as the Save report to folder setting in the Action to be applied to report window, you must specify the user account and password for accessing this folder.

  If this option is disabled, the report is saved to the folder under the account of Administration Server.

  The check box is available, if the Save report to folder is selected.

  By default, this option is disabled.

Click Next to proceed to the next step.

Step 4. Selecting the account to start the task

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In the Selecting an account to run the task window, you can specify which account to use when running the task. Select one of the following options:

• Default account

  The task will be run under the same account as the application that performs this task.

  By default, this option is selected.

• Specify account

  Fill in the Account and Password fields to specify the details of an account under which the task is run. The account must have sufficient rights for this task.

  • Account

    Account under which the task is run.

  • Password

    Password of the account under which the task will be run.

Click Next to proceed to the next step.

Step 5. Configuring a task schedule

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On the Configure task schedule Wizard page, you can create a schedule for task start. If necessary, define the following settings:

• Scheduled start:

  Select the schedule according to which the task runs, and configure the selected schedule.

  • Every N hours

    The task runs regularly, with the specified interval in hours, starting from the specified date and time.

    By default, the task runs every six hours, starting from the current system date and time.

  • Every N days

    The task runs regularly, with the specified interval in days. Additionally, you can specify a date and time of the first task run. These additional options become available, if they are supported by the application for which you create the task.

    By default, the task runs every day, starting from the current system date and time.

  • Every N weeks

    The task runs regularly, with the specified interval in weeks, on the specified day of week and at the specified time.

    By default, the task runs every Monday at the current system time.

  • Every N minutes

    The task runs regularly, with the specified interval in minutes, starting from the specified time on the day that the task is created.

    By default, the task runs every 30 minutes, starting from the current system time.

  • Daily (daylight saving time is not supported)

    The task runs regularly, with the specified interval in days. This schedule does not support observance of daylight saving time (DST). It means that when clocks jump one hour forward or backward at the beginning or ending of DST, the actual task start time does not change.

    We do not recommend that you use this schedule. It is needed for backward compatibility of Kaspersky Security Center.

    By default, the task starts every day at the current system time.

  • Weekly

    The task runs every week on the specified day and at the specified time.

  • By days of week

    The task runs regularly, on the specified days of week, at the specified time.

    By default, the task runs every Friday at 6:00:00 PM.

  • Monthly

    The task runs regularly, on the specified day of the month, at the specified time.

    In months that lack the specified day, the task runs on the last day.

    By default, the task runs on the first day of each month, at the current system time.

  • Manually

    The task does not run automatically. You can only start it manually.

    By default, this option is enabled.

  • Every month on specified days of selected weeks

    The task runs regularly, on the specified days of each month, at the specified time.

    By default, no days of month are selected; the default start time is 6:00:00 PM.

  • On virus outbreak

    The task runs after a Virus outbreak event occurs. Select application types that will monitor virus outbreaks. The following application types are available:

    • Anti-virus for workstations and file servers
    • Anti-virus for perimeter defense
    • Anti-virus for mail systems

    By default, all application types are selected.

    You may want to run different tasks depending on the anti-virus application type that reports a virus outbreak. In this case, remove the selection of the application types that you do not need.

  • On completing another task

    The current task starts after another task completes. You can select how the previous task must complete (successfully or with error) to trigger the start of the current task. For example, you may want to run the Manage devices task with the Turn on the device option and, after it completes, run the Virus scan task.

• Run missed tasks

  This option determines the behavior of a task if a client device is not visible on the network when the task is about to start.

  If this option is enabled, the system attempts to start the task the next time the Kaspersky application is run on the client device. If the task schedule is Manually, Once or Immediately, the task is started immediately after the device becomes visible on the network or immediately after the device is included in the task scope.

  If this option is disabled, only scheduled tasks run on client devices; for Manually, Once and Immediately, tasks run only on those client devices that are visible on the network. For example, you may want to disable this option for a resource-consuming task that you want to run only outside of business hours.

  By default, this option is enabled.

• Use automatically randomized delay for task starts

  If this option is enabled, the task is started on client devices randomly within a specified time interval, that is, distributed task start. A distributed task start helps to avoid a large number of simultaneous requests by client devices to the Administration Server when a scheduled task is running.

  The distributed start time is calculated automatically when a task is created, depending on the number of client devices to which the task is assigned. Later, the task is always started on the calculated start time. However, when task settings are edited or the task is started manually, the calculated value of the task start time changes.

  If this option is disabled, the task starts on client devices according to the schedule.

• Use randomized delay for task starts within an interval of (min)

  If this option is enabled, the task is started on client devices randomly within the specified time interval. A distributed task start helps to avoid a large number of simultaneous requests by client devices to the Administration Server when a scheduled task is running.

  If this option is disabled, the task starts on client devices according to the schedule.

  By default, this option is disabled. The default time interval is one minute.

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Step 6. Defining the task name

In the Define the task name window, specify the name for the task that you are creating. A task name cannot be more than 100 characters long and cannot include any special characters ("*<>?\:|).

Click Next to proceed to the next step.

Step 7. Completing creation of the task

In the Finish task creation window, click the Finish button to finish the wizard.

If you want the task to start as soon as the wizard finishes, select the Run the task after the Wizard finishes check box.