Orbital Requirements

Supported Platforms

  • Windows

    • Windows 10 (1803 or later) / 11

    • Windows Server 2012 / 2012 R2 / 2016 / 2019 / 2022

    • Windows 10 IoT Enterprise

  • macOS

    • macOS 10.15 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14

      Apple Silicon is supported when running macOS 11 or newer.

  • Linux Distributions

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and compatible distributions) 7 (7.2 or later) / 8 / 9

    • Ubuntu 18.04 / 20.04 / 22.04

    • Oracle Linux (UEK) 7 / 8

    • Debian 10 / 11

    • Amazon Linux 2

Supported Browsers

Orbital supports the latest version and one prior version of the:

  • Apple Safari

  • Google Chrome

  • Mozilla Firefox

Network Connectivity

To use Orbital on your Windows, Mac, and Linux connectors, you must allow access to these servers over TCP 443:

  • Orbital Updates - orbital.amp.cisco.com

  • Orbital Queries - ncp.orbital.amp.cisco.com

  • Orbital Installer - update.orbital.amp.cisco.com

Proxy Support

When deployed from Cisco Secure Endpoint (within Policies), Orbital supports the use of proxies for Linux, macOS, and Windows operating systems. Proxy configurations are inherited from the Secure Endpoint Windows connector.

Orbital does not support the use of SSL proxies and will not function if the proxy performs SSL decryption. It is recommended that Orbital network traffic not be subjected to SSL decryption.

When deployed from Cisco Secure Client, the Orbital Windows node (version 2.42 and later) will discover proxy configurations in the order described below and use the first method that will successfully connect to the Orbital backend.

  1. Direct connection to the Internet

  2. Environment variables
    The Orbital node will read proxy settings from these environment variables:

    1. HTTPS_PROXY (or https_proxy)

    2. HTTP_PROXY (or http_proxy)

    3. FTP_PROXY (or ftp_proxy)

    4. NO_PROXY (or no_proxy)

  3. IE Proxy Config: AutoDetect (WPAD)

    The Orbital node will read the proxy auto-configuration (PAC) file via:

    1. DHCP-based WPAD (i.e., configuring DHCP option 252)

    2. DNS-based WPAD (e.g., hosting the PAC file at wpad.domain.com)

  4. IE Proxy Config: AutoConfig URL (PAC)
    The Orbital node will read the proxy auto-configuration (PAC) file hosted at a given URL.

    • Configure the URL of the PAC file. On your PC, go to Settings > Network & Internet > Proxy and select Set up in the Automatic proxy setup section.

  5. IE Proxy Config: Manual
    The Orbital node will read proxy settings configured directly in settings.

    • Configure proxy settings. On your PC, go to Settings > Network & Internet > Proxy and select Set up in the Manual proxy setup section

  6. WinHTTP Default
    The Orbital node will read proxy settings configured in the operating system via the netsh winhttp command.

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