Add one-click agent self-upgrade from the endpoint detail page

An operator could see that an endpoint was behind the published build but
had no way to act on it. update_app resolves against Application rows, and
the agent lives in the version store, so there was nothing to push.

Bridge the two: the staged build is packaged and registered as a reserved
Application row, and a managed PowerShell script is seeded to install it.
The endpoint downloads that package over the existing collector-authenticated
app-package route, so no parallel delivery path is introduced.

The new route prepares the delivery and then DELEGATES to
enqueue_endpoint_command as a digest-pinned run_script. It deliberately does
not implement its own enqueue: a second path would duplicate, and eventually
drift from, the endpoint lock, the Configuration Policy gate, stale-command
reaping and the at-most-one-in-flight rule. A fleet-wide agent swap is the
last action that should skip a quarantine check. Tests pin that delegation
rather than only the happy path.

Because it lands as run_script, the caller needs endpoints.runscript on top
of endpoints.agentupdate. That is intended: this delivers arbitrary SYSTEM
PowerShell by the same mechanism as any other script push. The audit event
is written only on an actual 201, so a refused push does not record an
upgrade that never happened.

Replacing the agent is self-modifying the control plane - the process
receiving the command is the one being swapped. The script therefore
re-launches itself detached and exits immediately, because the agent runs
run_script as a direct child and holds its stdout/stderr pipes while
waiting on it. Expect the command to report queued rather than success:
the process that would report completion is stopped mid-run. Judge the
result by the version the endpoint reports afterward.

Tray relaunch does not use the installer's `explorer.exe <path>` trick.
That works in install-shopdbagent.ps1 only because the installer runs as
the user - note its own `-ne "SYSTEM"` guard. This script always runs as
SYSTEM in session 0, where the hand-off reaches no shell and exits 0, so
Start-Process reported success for a relaunch that never happened. It also
cannot descend into the session with a token-duplicating launch:
UserContextSpool documents that WTSQueryUserToken is blocked by endpoint
protection on these hosts. Instead a one-shot scheduled task targets the
pinned ShopFloor account, matching how the user-context spool already
resolves that user, and the tray must run as that account or the
mapped-drive probe reports the wrong (empty) drive table. The relaunch is
verified by polling for the process rather than assumed, and stays
best-effort: the Run key still starts the tray at next logon, and a late
tray is not worth rolling back a good agent upgrade.

panel_status now carries agentbehind/agentversion/agentcurrent so the UI
gates the action on a flag rather than parsing "(behind X)" out of a label.
The button is confirmed by typing UPDATE, naming both versions and the
service interruption, matching how run_script and system_restart are gated.

Verified on live endpoints: upgraded 1.13.0.0 and 1.15.0.0 machines to
1.16.0.0. run_script delivery, digest fetch and system context all predate
1.13.0.0, so no minimum agent version is declared for this path.
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benjamin.baker
2026-09-09 22:56:21 -04:00
parent d32293ccb2
commit 8be1c2379f
8 changed files with 957 additions and 6 deletions

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@@ -569,10 +569,11 @@ def panel_status(asset_id: int):
# "behind" from a placeholder like '0.0.0-sample' would be a false alarm.
agentvalue = state.agentversion
published = agentstore.current_version('agent')
if (agentvalue and published
and parse_agent_version(agentvalue)
and parse_agent_version(published)
and not agent_meets_minimum(agentvalue, published)):
agentbehind = (agentvalue and published
and parse_agent_version(agentvalue)
and parse_agent_version(published)
and not agent_meets_minimum(agentvalue, published))
if agentbehind:
agentvalue = '{} (behind {})'.format(agentvalue, published)
fields = [
@@ -609,7 +610,17 @@ def panel_status(asset_id: int):
'{} monitor(s) expected running but not reported: {}'.format(
len(drift), names)))
return success_response({'fields': fields})
# Machine-readable companion to the "(behind X)" text above. The UI needs to
# decide whether to offer the upgrade action, and parsing that decision back
# out of a display string would tie the button to the wording of a label.
# Emitted as a sibling of fields so nothing about the existing rendering
# changes; an older UI simply ignores it.
return success_response({
'fields': fields,
'agentbehind': bool(agentbehind),
'agentversion': state.agentversion,
'agentcurrent': published,
})
@endpoints_bp.route('/asset/<int:asset_id>/hardware', methods=['GET'])
@@ -2975,6 +2986,90 @@ def enqueue_endpoint_command(asset_id: int):
message='Command queued', http_code=201)
@endpoints_bp.route('/<int:asset_id>/agentupgrade', methods=['POST'])
@require_permission('endpoints.agentupdate')
def enqueue_agent_upgrade(asset_id: int):
"""Push the published agent build to one endpoint.
Replacing the agent is self-modifying the control plane: the process that
receives this command is the one being swapped. It therefore sits behind
endpoints.agentupdate rather than endpoints.command or endpoints.deploy -
see the permission's rationale in plugin.py.
This does NOT enqueue directly. It prepares the delivery (packages the
current build, seeds/refreshes the upgrade script) and then delegates to
enqueue_endpoint_command as a run_script push. Writing a second enqueue
path here would duplicate - and eventually drift from - the endpoint lock
check, the Configuration Policy gate, stale-command reaping and the
at-most-one-in-flight rule. Those are exactly the protections a
fleet-wide agent swap must not be the one action to skip.
Because it lands as run_script, the caller needs endpoints.runscript too
(enforced by the delegate as the elevated permission for that action).
That is deliberate: this delivers arbitrary SYSTEM PowerShell by the same
mechanism as any other script push.
"""
from . import agentregistry, agentupgradescript
# Refresh the package and the script body from the CURRENT staged build
# before queueing, so an upgrade cannot ship a stale payload if the row was
# written before the latest upload. Both operations are idempotent.
try:
registration = agentregistry.register_current_agent_package()
except Exception as exc: # noqa: BLE001 - surfaced, not swallowed
db.session.rollback()
return error_response(ErrorCodes.VALIDATION_ERROR,
f'Could not package the agent build: {exc}')
if registration is None:
return error_response(
ErrorCodes.VALIDATION_ERROR,
'No agent build is published. Upload an agent binary before '
'pushing an upgrade.')
try:
seeded = agentupgradescript.seed_upgrade_script()
except Exception as exc: # noqa: BLE001 - surfaced, not swallowed
db.session.rollback()
return error_response(ErrorCodes.VALIDATION_ERROR,
f'Could not prepare the upgrade script: {exc}')
if seeded is None:
return error_response(ErrorCodes.VALIDATION_ERROR,
'The agent upgrade script could not be prepared.')
# Rewrite the request body to the equivalent run_script push and hand it to
# the real enqueue route. The policyoverride/overridereason fields are
# forwarded untouched so break-glass keeps behaving exactly as it does for
# a normal script push, including its admin-role and reason requirements.
payload = request.get_json(silent=True) or {}
forwarded = {
'action': 'run_script',
'target': 'script:{}'.format(seeded['scriptid']),
}
if payload.get('policyoverride'):
forwarded['policyoverride'] = True
forwarded['overridereason'] = payload.get('overridereason') or ''
# Swap the parsed JSON for the delegate. Flask caches the parsed body on
# the request, so setting the cache is what makes get_json() return this.
request._cached_json = (forwarded, forwarded)
response = enqueue_endpoint_command(asset_id)
# Audit only a push that actually queued. The delegate returns a non-201
# for a lock, a policy denial or an in-flight command, and recording those
# as upgrades would put events in the log for pushes that never happened.
status = getattr(response, 'status_code', None)
if status == 201:
AuditLog.log(
'created', 'AgentUpgrade', entityid=asset_id,
entityname='agent {}'.format(registration['agentversion']),
details='agent upgrade queued for asset {} (version {}, script {})'
.format(asset_id, registration['agentversion'],
seeded['scriptid']))
db.session.commit()
return response
@endpoints_bp.route('/monitors/resolved', methods=['GET'])
def resolved_monitors_for_agent():
"""Agent watch list: the monitors this endpoint should report on.