Starting and stopping tasks

Starting and stopping tasks in the Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console

In Kaspersky Security Center, you can start or stop the task at any time irrespective of the selected task run mode.

To start or stop a task in the Administration Console:

  1. Open Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • Select the Managed devices folder in the console tree if you want to start or stop a task created for virtual machines belonging to all administration groups. In the workspace, select the Tasks tab.
    • In the Managed devices folder of the console tree, select the folder with the name of an administration group if you want to start or stop a task created for virtual machines included in this group. In the workspace, select the Tasks tab.
    • Select the Tasks folder in the console tree if you want to start or stop a task created for one or several virtual machines.
  3. In the list of tasks, select the task that you want to start or stop.
  4. Do one of the following:
    • If you want to start the task, right-click to open the context menu and select Run.
    • If you want to stop the task, right-click to open the context menu and select Stop.

For the Virus scan task, the Pause and Resume actions are available in addition to starting and stopping. On the virtual machines with Light Agent for Windows installed, automatic pause of the task execution at the specified time is also available.

Starting and stopping tasks in the Light Agent for Windows local interface

In the local interface, you can start or stop a task at any time irrespective of the selected task run mode if the display of local tasks and management of those tasks is not blocked by the Light Agent for Windows policy.

The Virus scan task can be started or stopped in Kaspersky Security Center.

To start or stop a task in the local interface:

  1. On the protected virtual machine, open the main application window.
  2. Select the Protection and Control tab.
  3. Open the Manage tasks section.

    If some tasks are absent from the section, this means that the display and management of local tasks is denied by the policy for all protected virtual machines of the administration group. You can enable or disable the display and management of local tasks in the Light Agent for Windows policy (Advanced settings subsection in the Other settings) section.

  4. Right-click the line containing the task name to open the context menu of task actions.
  5. Start or stop a task by selecting the relevant menu item.

    If you have started a task, the task progress status that is displayed on the right of the name of the task changes to Running.

    If you have stopped a task, the task progress status changes to Stopped.

You can configure the task to be automatically paused at a specified time.

You can also run a custom scan of any file by selecting Scan for viruses in the Windows context menu.

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