Managing general application settings in the command line

General application settings define the operation of the application as a whole and the operation of individual functions.

You can manage general application settings using special management commands:

• Output the current values of general application settings to the console or to a configuration file.
• Edit general application settings using a configuration file containing all general settings, or using command line options in the <setting name>=<setting value> format.

Using general settings, you can:

• Configure the use of Kaspersky Security Network and the light version of anti-malware databases in the application.
• Configure the use of a proxy server in the application.
• Select the file operation interception mode (block or do not block files during a scan).
• Configure exclusions from the mount points scan (global exclusions).
• Configure exclusions from the process memory scan.
• Enable or disable the detection of legitimate applications that intruders can use to compromise devices or data.
• Configure the use of event logs.
• Configure a limit on CPU resource usage by scan tasks (of the ODS type).
• Limit the number of user scan tasks that a non-privileged user can start simultaneously.

Displaying general application settings

You can output the current values of general application settings to the console or to a configuration file that you can use to edit task settings.

To output the current values of general application settings to the console, execute the following command:

kess-control --get-app-settings [--json]

where --json is specified to output the settings in JSON format. If the --json option is not specified, the settings are output in the INI format.

To output the current values of general application settings to a configuration file, execute the following command:

kess-control --get-app-settings --file <configuration file path> [--json]

where:

• --file <configuration file path> is the path to the configuration file into which general settings of the application will be written. If you specify the name of a file without its path, the file will be created in the current directory. If a file already exists in the specified path, it will be overwritten. If the specified directory does not exist, the configuration file will not be created.
• --json is specified to output the settings in JSON format. If the --json option is not specified, the settings are output in the INI format.

  Example: Display the general application settings to a file named kess_config.ini. Save the created file in the current directory: kess-control --get-app-settings --file kess_config.ini

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Editing general application settings

On the command line, you can edit the general application settings using the command kess-control --set-app-settings:

• You can edit all general settings using the configuration file that contains the general application settings. You can get the configuration file using the command for displaying general settings.
• You can edit individual settings using command line options in the <setting name>=<setting value> format. You can get the current values of general application settings using the command for displaying general settings.

To edit values of general application settings using a configuration file:

1. Output the general application settings to a configuration file.
2. Edit the values of the necessary parameters in the file and save the changes.
3. Execute the command:

   kess-control --set-app-settings --file <path to configuration file> [--json]

   where:

   • --file <path to configuration file> is the full path to the configuration file with the general application settings.
   • --json: specify this option if you are importing settings from a configuration file in JSON format. If the --json option is not specified, the application attempts to import from an INI file. If the import fails, an error is displayed.

All the values of the general settings defined in the file will be imported into the application.

To edit general application settings using command line options, execute the following command:

kess-control --set-app-settings <setting name>=<setting value> [<setting name>=<setting value>]

where <setting name>=<setting value> is the name and value of one of the general application settings.

The values of the specified general settings will be changed.

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