Hardware and software system requirements for Take Control

Hardware & Software Requirements

Operating System -

Technician Console & Remote Viewer

  • Windows 7, 8.0/8.1, 10, 11
    • Windows Server 2012, 2016, 2019, 2022
  • macOS 10.12 or later
  • Android 9.0 or later
  • iOS 11.0 or later
    • iPhone & iPod Touch 11.0 or later
    • iPadOS 11.0 or later
Operating System - Agent & Applet
  • Windows 7, 8.0/8.1, 10, 11
    • Windows Server 2012, 2016, 2019, 2022
  • macOS 10.12 or later
  • Android 9.0 or later (Applet only)
  • iOS 13.2 or later (Applet only)
    • iPhone & iPod Touch 13.2 or later
    • iPadOS 13.2 or later
  • Agent only:
    • Linux - Fedora 36
    • Linux - Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 and 22.04 (LTS variants)
    • CentOS 7 and 8
Network Ability to make direct outgoing TCP connections or availability of an HTTP proxy or a SOCKS server
Hard drive space 100 MB
CPU 450 MHz
RAM 256 MB
Bandwidth

1Byte/s and 5KB every 5 seconds

Actual bandwidth for sessions is dependent on resolution and quality settings.

In Chrome version 77 and later, the checkbox for "always open these types of links in the associated app" is no longer displayed for URL custom protocols. The impact of this is that for all users on the Chrome browser, there is no longer an option to remember your protocol handling preferences, and the below dialog (or some variation, pending your local settings, etc) will be presented each time a Take Control session is launched. This is, in no way a bug, or a fault. Further, there is nothing the Take Control team can do to mitigate this. It is simply a change about how custom protocols are handled within the Chrome browser.

Access to the Take Control network

Take Control's list of IP addresses is very large and highly dynamic. Many IP address ranges point towards the intelligent routing infrastructure that forms part of our global network. Additionally, it is not possible to curate a list of Gateway IP addresses – the components responsible for session connectivity. This type of IP address is negotiated upon session setup and is predicated by the geo-location of both the session host, the session recipient, as well as being subject to available network conditions.

To get the best performance out of Take Control, please make sure that there is no deep packet inspection applied to the Take Control domains. On the Agents' networks, you can also create an exclusion on inspecting outbound traffic on the TCP port 3377.

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