Application Resilience policies for Kaseya Agent

You can activate an Application Resilience policy for Kaseya® Agent to collect information about the functional status of Kaseya Agent installed on your Windows devices and view the results in reports. You can also configure the policy to attempt to repair or reinstall the application.

Application Resilience policies for Kaseya Agent are supported on devices running:

  • a supported version of the Windows operating system

  • PowerShell version 5.1 or higher

    Due to PowerShell restrictions imposed by Microsoft, Application Resilience isn't supported for this application on devices running Windows 11 SE.

  • one of the following versions of Kaseya Agent:

    • 9.5.x or higher

      Significant software changes in higher versions may cause health checks to become invalid.

In addition to checking the version, the following table describes the health checks performed:

If you select Report higher versions as Compliant, higher versions report Compliant without running health checks.

Component Test performed
Services Installed Running Signed by
  • Kaseya Agent (AgentMon.exe)
  • Kaseya Agent Endpoint (KaseyaEndpoint.exe)
 P P

One of the signers entered in the policy configuration

By default, Signers contains "Kaseya Corporation" and "KASEYA HOLDINGS INC.".
Group ID
  • Kaseya group ID is detected on the device

You can configure an Application Resilience policy for Kaseya Agent to enable the Application Resilience (RAR) component A lightweight software component of the Secure Endpoint Agent that detects the status of third party applications installed on a device. The component may also attempt to repair the third party application if it is non-compliant. The RAR component is deployed on a device only when the device is associated with a customized policy group and that policy group's Application Resilience policy is activated. to attempt to repair Kaseya Agent if it's not functioning, or reinstall it if it's missing or can't be repaired.

Depending on the Absolute product licenses associated with your account, the Report and repair option, and the Report, repair, and reinstall option may not be available.

The RAR component of the Secure Endpoint Agent can respond to the following issues:

Issue Resolution
Repair

One or more of the following services aren't running:

  • Kaseya Agent (AgentMon.exe)
  • Kaseya Agent Endpoint (KaseyaEndpoint.exe)

The RAR component restarts each stopped service.

One or more of the following services aren't installed and the service's executable can be detected on the device:

  • Kaseya Agent (AgentMon.exe)
  • Kaseya Agent Endpoint (KaseyaEndpoint.exe)

The RAR component reinstalls each missing service.
Reinstall

Downgrades are not supported. If the version installed on a device is higher than the expected version, no action is taken.

One or more of the following services aren't installed and the service's executable cannot be detected on the device:

  • Kaseya Agent (AgentMon.exe)
  • Kaseya Agent Endpoint (KaseyaEndpoint.exe)

If the application is installed, the RAR component uninstalls it. After the application is uninstalled, or if the application wasn't installed, the RAR component downloads and installs the configured version of the application.
Kaseya Agent failed to be repaired, or the expected version isn't installed

The installer:

  • must be an EXE file

  • can have any file name

The RAR component looks for the following files names when checking pre-cached installers:

Component File name
Installers KcsSetup.exe

Before you activate an Application Resilience policy you need to configure the policy. You need to configure the application version in addition to the settings in Configuring Application Resilience policies.

To configure the application version:

Under Kaseya Agent version, enter the version of Kaseya Agent you expect to be running on your devices.

  • The target version must be a sequence of digits separated by a period.
  • You can use wildcard "*" characters after the major version, for example, 9.* or 9.5.* or 9.5.1.*.

Make sure the version you are entering is consistent with version 9.5.x or higher.

If you selected the Report, repair, and reinstall option, you also need to configure this setting in addition to the settings in Configuring Application Resilience policies.

To configure the Kaseya Agent specific setting:

[Optional] Under Additional installation commands, enter the applicable installation command-line parameters to configure any settings not covered by the policy configuration. For more information on available parameters, see Kaseya's documentation.