Requirements and supported products
Hardware requirements
ESET Bridge is based on Nginx—see Nginx hardware specifications.
See also ESET PROTECT On-Prem hardware and infrastructure sizing.
Supported operating systems
You can install ESET Bridge on these operating systems:
•Windows—Windows Server 2016/2019/2022.
•Linux:
oUbuntu—16, 18, 20, 22, 24
oCentOS—7 (including the earlier ESET PROTECT Virtual Appliance), 8
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CentOS 8 reached its End of Life in December 2021, and CentOS 7 reached its End of Life in June 2024. The affected systems require a migration. |
oRHEL—7, 8, 9
oRocky Linux—9 (including the new ESET PROTECT VA)
Supported ESET products
ESET Bridge works with ESET PROTECT Server 10.0 and later and the cloud ESET PROTECT.
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The ESET Bridge default configuration supports the cloud ESET Inspect. You can configure ESET Bridge to support ESET Inspect On-Prem. |
ESET Bridge works with these ESET security products:
•HTTP proxy—All ESET security products that can use a proxy to download updates.
•HTTPS traffic caching—ESET Bridge can decrypt and cache HTTPS traffic:
oUpdate requests (modules, repository) from a supported ESET security product:
Supported ESET security product (HTTPS traffic caching) |
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ESET Endpoint Antivirus/Security for Windows |
10 and later |
oESET LiveGuard Advanced traffic for ESET PROTECT On-Prem and the supported ESET security products listed above.
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HTTPS traffic caching limitations •ESET Bridge does not support HTTPS traffic caching for unlisted ESET security products (earlier ESET Endpoint for Windows, Windows Server/Linux/macOS security products). •ESET PROTECT On-Prem supports HTTP/HTTPS traffic caching, but the cloud ESET PROTECT supports only HTTP traffic caching. The cloud-based ESET PROTECT does not support HTTPS traffic caching—the required certificates are available in ESET PROTECT On-Prem, but not in the cloud-based ESET PROTECT. •ESET Bridge and ESET PROTECT support HTTP traffic caching for all ESET security products. |
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ESET PROTECT users with ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management •ESET Bridge blocks the Patch Management network traffic by default (when Vulnerability & Patch Management is disabled). ESET Bridge does not affect vulnerability reporting. •When you apply the Vulnerability & Patch Management Policy on managed computers and the computer running ESET Bridge, ESET Bridge (version 3 and later) automatically allows the Patch Management network traffic by disabling the Access Control List (ACL) rules. ESET PROTECT Web Console will display the Access restrictions are disabled alert in computer details because disabling ACL rules allows the routing of all network traffic via ESET Bridge (ESET Bridge becomes an open proxy). We recommend setting up proxy authentication to improve network security. |