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How to deploy the Orbital Agent on Linux

This guide will walk you through all the steps you need to know to deploy the Orbital Agent on a device running Linux

Written by Alan Butcher
Updated over a week ago

Defense.com's Orbital Agent gives you a host of capabilities, including:

  • Automated tracking of the assets in your environment

  • Asset profiling, including their operating system and installed applications

  • Rapid response to incidents via our device isolation feature

  • Automated configuration checks to help you stay compliant

Manual Deployment

Deploying the Orbital into your environment is super straightforward. If you're looking to perform a small deployment by manually installing the agent on each host, follow the steps below.

Please do not change the installer filename, as this includes your unique installation key. Doing so will cause the installation to fail.

  1. Log in to your my.defense.com account

  2. Select Endpoints from the navigation on the left-hand side

  3. Click Orbital Agent from the sub-navigation

  4. From the Orbital Agent index page, click Installation Links in the top right-hand corner

  5. You'll then be presented with a modal where you can select the Endpoint Group, and click Download Installer for Linux

  6. Launch Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and navigate to where your Orbital installer is located

  7. Next, make the installer executable using sudo chmod +x orbital-install-[encypted_key]

  8. Run the installer sudo ./orbital-install-[encrypted_key] (replacing encrypted_key with the encrypted key, which is part of the filename, for example orbital-install-[Wjrh5gjrfh5fhryE4ue])

  9. Once you've run the installer, you'll be presented with the installation interface. Click Next to begin the installation

  10. Select your installation folder; this will default to /opt/Defensecom/Orbital

  11. Click Next to continue the installation

  12. Select the components you want to install, and click Next

  13. Click Install

  14. Finally, click Finish, and the installation is complete

And that's it! You've successfully installed Orbital on a Linux machine πŸŽ‰

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