Configure Your Account

One of the first tasks that should be performed after gaining access to Orbital is to set up your default time options, schedule settings, and remote data store.

For more information on the My Account page, refer to the My Account Page topic.

Set the Time Options

To set up your account's default time zone and format:

  1. Select the My Account page from the Administration group.

  2. Navigate to the Time Options dialog.

  3. Select the desired time zone and format.

  • Select the Cisco XDR or Secure Client Cloud Management Time Zone/Format radio button to set your Orbital account's time zone and time format to match the time zone and time format of your Cisco XDR or Secure Client Cloud Management account.

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  • Select the Custom Time Zone/Format radio button to customize your Orbital account's time zone and format.

  1. Click the Time Zone dropdown and select the time zone that is closest to you current geographical location.

  2. Click the Time Format dropdown and select the format that your Orbital account will use for date and time.

Set the Default Interval

To set up your account's default query or script interval:

  1. Select the My Account page of the Administration group.

  2. Select the default query schedule’s frequency from the Every drop down.

  3. Select the default query schedule’s duration from the For drop down..

  4. Turn on the Run Once toggle switch, shown in the figure below, only if you wish to have the query run once against your organization's endpoints over the course of the query's duration.

Set the Default Remote Data Store

To set your account's default remote data store:

  1. Select the My Account page of the Administration group.

  2. Click on the Default Remote Data Store drop down.

  3. Select the desired remote data store definition. This will populate the Default Remote Data Store drop down with the name of the selected remote data store.

Note: You may add multiple remote data store definitions to this dropdown if you need to have more than one remote data store to send results to. To add multiple remote data stores, repeat the steps above for each remote data store you need.

Refer to Setting Up Remote Data Stores topic for more information on adding new remote data store definitions and managing existing definitions.

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