CI failed one test that passes here: "no such table: settings", seeding a
Setting into a database with no tables. The test was not wrong about the
product, it was asking the process-wide plugin_manager to do the work.
create_app() re-points that singleton, and eight test modules build their own
app, so it belongs to whichever ran last on the xdist worker.
_seed_plugin_settings then opens `with self._app.app_context()` on a different
app's in-memory SQLite. A sibling symptom is the registry coming back None
("'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_all'"). Both land on whichever test
follows, never on the module that caused them, so they move with the split -
green on one machine, red on another.
The test now builds a manager for itself, sets _app and _db, and calls
_seed_plugin_settings directly. That is the routine `flask plugin upgrade-all`
runs, so what is under test has not changed, and the assertion no longer depends
on worker order. init_app is deliberately not called: it re-registers the plugin
blueprints and a second call on one app raises "The name 'backups' is already
registered".
This does NOT fix the underlying fragility, and that is a separate decision.
Running tests/test_plugins serially today gives 115 failed and 542 errors, from
the same cause; under -n auto it is nearly invisible because modules land in
separate processes. The repair is to stop create_app mutating a module-level
singleton, and it belongs in its own change rather than riding along here.
Turning "Shared key allowed" off refused the key on the endpoints plugin and
left four core collector routes open to it. Anything still holding the old key
could keep rewriting logged-in user, last boot time, serial number and installed
app inventory for ANY hostname, while the admin believed the shared key was off.
Data integrity only - no command execution, no credential issuance - but it is a
hole in a boundary the product advertises as closed.
It cannot simply be closed. Both GE-Enforce reporters still authenticate with
that key, so refusing it fleet-wide would stop asset and printer reporting
everywhere, and on an air-gapped site mid-migration that is the wrong order of
operations. collector.legacysharedkeyrefused therefore DEFAULTS TO TODAY'S
BEHAVIOUR, and its description names exactly what turning it on breaks and when
it should be turned on: after the reporters move to per-PC credentials, not
before.
A legacy route used with the shared key now logs a warning, so a site can find
out who still depends on the key before flipping anything. On a stock Windows
deployment that warning may name the proxy rather than the caller; the token
prefix in the same line is the identifier to go by.
The switch is seeded with the core defaults and has a control on the
authentication settings page. Undeclared, it was a row that did not exist, and
this UI has no generic key/value editor, so seeding alone would have rendered
nothing for an operator to click.
Two contract declarations corrected while in here:
notifications.alertscope was declared db.JSON in the model while the migration
that creates it ships TEXT, and those migrations state the constraint in their
own docstrings: no JSON columns. The model now matches the shipped column rather
than the schema being bent to the model.
usb and printedparts both import a name that arrived in contract 0.35.0 while
declaring core_version floors of 0.1.0 and 0.16.0, so the loader would have
accepted them on a core that cannot satisfy them - an ImportError at blueprint
registration instead of a refusal with a reason. Both floors now say what the
plugin actually needs.
Both kiosks admit a check-in or check-out with no login when the caller sits in
a configured network. The subtraction that makes that safe was missing.
A reverse proxy normally sits ON the plant network a site enters in the
allowlist. When the proxy forwards nothing - misconfigured, or something
bypassed it - the request arrives wearing the proxy's own address, which matches
the allowlist, while carrying no evidence whatever about who sent it. That is
the one case that has to refuse, and it was being admitted. The previous
fail-closed test only looked closed because the proxy in it happened to sit
outside the range.
Addresses that belong to the path are now subtracted before the allowlist is
consulted: loopback always, since no site's kiosk is the server itself, plus
whatever the site declares as its proxies. USB and printedparts get the same
treatment - they had diverged for no reason anybody chose.
Three more, same surface:
A range that admits everybody can no longer be saved by accident. 0.0.0.0/0 and
::/0 are refused outright, anything wider than a site plausibly needs is refused
unless an explicit override is set, and the refusal says why.
The kiosk token no longer travels in a URL. The provisioning link carries a
single-use setup code redeemed on first open, so the token stays out of browser
history, referrers and proxy logs. The route is declared public deliberately:
the secret is the code, the way a password-reset link is the secret.
The badge-to-name lookup is bounded. It answers without a login and is now
reachable from a whole network rather than one screen, so a source that keeps
missing gets refused rather than being allowed to walk the directory. On by
default, budget and kill switch are settings.
All four new settings carry controls on their settings pages. A setting that can
stop the kiosk, or widen it, must not be reachable only by hand-editing rows.
The installer's client-IP advice is corrected: it described the opposite of what
the shipped waitress flags do, and named only GE-Enforce as the thing that
breaks when the rule is absent, when the two kiosk allowlists depend on it too.
The bootstrap command staged its script into C:\Windows\Temp and then ran it
elevated. That directory grants Users create-file with CREATOR OWNER full
control, so somebody without admin rights can pre-plant the exact path the
elevated run is about to execute. It now stages under Program Files, creates the
directory with an explicit DACL when it is missing, and refuses to run a staged
file that is not owned by an admin principal. A failed hardening is loud rather
than silent: the run stops instead of carrying on with a file it could not
protect.
The token moved out of the query string into a header. In a query string it
lands verbatim in the reverse proxy and IIS logs, which is a credential written
to a file nobody thinks of as a secret store. The query form is still accepted,
because bays provisioned before this change are holding install commands that
use it, and it logs that it was used - without logging the token - so a site can
see who still needs a re-issued command before turning it off with
plugin.endpoints.bootstrapquerytoken.
Two smaller things this also closes:
A request with no token at all answered 400 naming the header, which told an
anonymous caller the state of that switch and contradicted the module's own
promise that anything unusable answers 404. No token is now 404. The 400 is kept
for a token genuinely presented in the query form while the query form is off,
which is a caller who needs to know their command is stale.
The rollout documentation was republishing the vulnerable one-liner verbatim, so
a tech following the runbook reinstated exactly what this fixes. Both documents
now carry the current command.
Also corrects the operator-facing copy for the token, which named a query
argument and a header that do not exist: it is ?t= and X-Endpoint-Bootstrap-Token,
per bootstrap.py's own constants. Anybody following the old text got a 404 with
no reason given.
Both switches added in this range are now declared with the other plugin
settings and reachable from their settings page. Read through Setting.get but
never declared, they were rows that did not exist until someone wrote one by
hand, which on an air-gapped box means the feature was unreachable.
Three holes in the enrollment path, all of the same shape: a decision the admin
made did not survive contact with a PC that simply asked again.
REJECTION WAS UNDONE BY A NEW NONCE. A rejected request re-armed itself as a
fresh cycle when the PC came back with a different nonce, and with the shared
key and auto-enroll on it was then issued the credential the admin had just
refused. Rejection now binds to the endpoint identity - hostname plus BIOS
serial - not to the nonce, so the PC stays refused however often it reinstalls.
An admin clears it deliberately, through the approve path that already exists; a
genuinely different PC is untouched.
THE PENDING QUEUE COULD BE FILLED UNTIL IT REFUSED EVERY NEW PC. /enroll takes
no auth by design - a bay that has never spoken to the server has nothing to
authenticate with - so anything that can reach the server could sit at the cap
and lock out real enrollments fleet-wide. Rows nobody has touched for seven days
now age out before the cap refuses anyone, and the count of what went is
audited. Per-identity dedup and the cap itself were already there and are left
alone.
REVOKE DID NOT STOP A LIVE AGENT. It fell back to the shared key and the server
admitted it again, so revoking a compromised PC changed nothing while that key
still worked. plugin.endpoints.revokeddeniessharedkey makes a revoked host
refused on the shared key too.
That switch DEFAULTS OFF, and that is the important part. Turning it on would
silence any bay revoked for a key rotation, and would break the documented
revoke-then-rollback path to an older agent - on an air-gapped site, mid
migration, that is a fleet outage. A never-enrolled bay is never affected either
way: with no credential row at all the shared key still works, which is the
whole un-migrated fleet.
The checkbox sits next to the other two enrollment switches and says what
turning it on costs, because a setting that can stop the floor should not be
reachable only through the API.
The generated install.ps1 wrote the collector key to HKLM\SOFTWARE\GE\ShopDB and
left it at the DACL the key inherits, which grants BUILTIN\Users read. Any
operator logged on to any bay could read the fleet key, and that key still
authenticates an un-enrolled PC: it claims queued commands and downloads script
bodies and installer packages. The per-PC credential work exists to retire that
key, but it stays until every consumer is off it, so meanwhile what matters is
who can read it.
Protect-HklmShopdbKey breaks inheritance, DROPS the inherited entries rather
than copying them - copying is what silently preserves the Users read - and
states SYSTEM and Administrators by SID in both registry views. By SID, so a
localised Windows still matches.
Everything that legitimately reads this key is SYSTEM (the service, the
GE-Enforce reporters) or an administrator (the adoption tool,
Set-ShopDBServerPins.ps1). The tray reads no registry at all - it talks to the
service over the named pipe - so nothing loses access.
It runs for the key-less package too, because ServerPins live in the same key
and the registry is authoritative for pinning: a standard user must not be able
to rewrite the pins either.
A bay that cannot take the ACL still installs. It says so, loudly, rather than
failing the install or staying quiet, because an agent that is not installed is
a worse outcome than a key that is still readable on that one machine.
Note what this does NOT fix: bays that already carry the key keep their
inherited DACL until they are reinstalled or upgraded through a package built
after this change.
The USB audit answered who had which drive and when, but not whether it came
back wiped or virus-scanned. That is the question the record is kept to answer:
removable-media custody is CMMC evidence, and custody without the state of the
media on return is half the story. Both stores already held the values - the
external checkinoutlog in sanitized and scanned_viruses, the app's own
usbcheckouts in waswiped and scannedviruses - and neither mode selected them.
Both now report them, in the JSON, the CSV and the column list, so the two
directory modes still answer in one voice.
Two things the rendering has to get right:
- Only a return carries them. The wipe and the scan happen when the drive comes
back, so a check-out row shows blanks rather than implying a fact about an
event that had not happened yet.
- Unknown is not "no". Both stores keep these nullable deliberately: a null
means nobody wrote it down, which is a different claim from a drive that came
back unwiped. Rendering an unrecorded return as "No" would put an assertion
in an audit record that no one ever made, so unknown stays blank and reads as
the gap it is. A test holds that, because "no" is the tempting default.
auditflag lives in selfhosted.py rather than routes.py: routes already imports
selfhosted, so the helper had to sit on that side or the import would be
circular.
Two failures from the same root: an administrator cannot see the kiosk token,
and a screen that was provisioned wrongly does not say so.
The settings API masks every key whose name contains 'token', so the settings
page shows '********'. The real value is visible for one moment - after
Generate, before Save - and an administrator who copies the field at any other
time provisions a screen with the literal mask. The kiosk then answers 404,
exactly as it answers a caller it has never heard of, because the route
deliberately does not advertise itself. Nothing anywhere says what went wrong.
- Each kiosk gains a permission-gated provisioning-link route that returns the
real setup URL, token included, to somebody who already holds settings.edit.
The mask stays: a token has no business in an ordinary settings list. The
copy step just stops depending on catching the one moment it is on screen.
Revealing it writes an audit row, since that is when the value left the
database. Both settings pages get a "Copy setup link" button, which falls
back to showing the link when the clipboard is refused - it is, over plain
http and in locked-down browsers.
- The USB kiosk asks the server on load whether this screen may be used, and
says plainly when it may not. It rendered a keypad and only failed once
somebody had typed their SSO, which reads as broken rather than as not set
up. It cannot guess: the enabled flag is public and only says the site has a
kiosk, and a caller admitted by network holds no token to look for, so the
parts kiosk's localStorage check would warn exactly the callers the allowlist
exists to serve. The probe is a badge-less session request - the gate runs
before any badge handling, so refused is 404 and admitted is the validation
error, with no lookup and nothing recorded. A test pins that ordering,
because reordering it would start telling admitted screens they are not set
up.
Verified in a browser, not only in tests: provisioning with the mask lands on
the refused screen, a correct token gets the drive list and survives a plain
revisit, and a tokenless caller inside the allowlist gets straight in.
The device token assumes a handful of fixed screens an administrator
provisions once. That is not how these kiosks are used: most people open the
page on their own PC, and there is no login, so per-browser provisioning would
mean touching every PC on the floor and losing it again on the next reimage or
cleared profile. A screen in that state did not look refused either - the USB
kiosk rendered a working page whose every call answered 404.
Both kiosks now admit a caller on either ground, the same shape the GE-Enforce
client endpoints already use: the per-device token, or a source address inside
an allowlist. Wall screens keep the token and are not confined to the
allowlist; everyone else is admitted by where they are on the network. Still
gated on the site's enable flag, so nothing opens by itself, and both
allowlists ship empty - token-only until a site enters its ranges.
- shopdb.api gains ip_in_cidrs and request_ip_allowlisted (contract 0.35.0).
On the surface because both plugins need the identical gate, and a CIDR
parser copied into two of them is where a fail-open creeps in later. They
fail closed on an empty setting, an unparseable caller address and a
malformed entry, and they read remote_addr rather than raw X-Forwarded-For -
so the IIS rewrite rule is what makes them meaningful, which the module says
at length.
- Separate settings per kiosk, usb_kiosk_allowed_cidrs and
printedparts_kiosk_allowed_cidrs. One must not grant the other, for the same
reason the tokens are separate.
- Both settings pages get a picker listing the network plugin's subnets with
their VLANs. It stores resolved CIDR strings, not subnet ids: the setting has
to work at a site that does not run that plugin and must not break when an
inventory row is deleted. Entries matching no subnet are shown rather than
hidden, since a stale one left by an inventory edit looks exactly like a
hand-typed range.
- USBKiosk says it was not admitted instead of pretending to work, which
PartsKiosk already did.
- The USB settings page keyed text-vs-boolean off the token alone. Adding a
second text setting to the boolean path would have saved it as the word
'true' - the bug that replaced the kiosk token and 404'd every provisioned
screen. Both load and save now key off a list, with a spec on it.
The trade, stated plainly in the admin UI: anyone on an allowed network can
check a drive in or out against a badge number they guess, and the record
carries that person's name. Badges are attribution, not authorization. Keeping
the ranges narrow is what bounds it; login is the alternative and was ruled out
because these users do not sign in.
Findings F2, F4, F5, F6, F7, F8, F9, F10, F11 and F13 from
wj-architectural-review.md. F1/F1a (the non-sargable LOWER pattern) and F3
(the warranty sync holding a pooled connection) are being handled separately
and are untouched here.
- A collector check-in that raced another for the same PC lost everything:
the unique index on the application fingerprint raised, nothing caught it,
and the whole check-in rolled back, discarding state, events and hardware,
answering the agent with form copy meant for a person. The insert now runs
in a savepoint, reconciles what the other transaction already wrote, one row
per savepoint so a second collision skips a row rather than the batch, and
the check-in commits with a warning. This is the shape the delete side of
the same function already had.
- Enrollment is deliberately unauthenticated, so it now carries a per-address
rate limit and a cap on pending requests, and the cap is a setting an admin
can see and change. A flood can no longer bury the approval queue or grow
the table without bound.
- The fleet alert poll no longer formats debug strings on every request.
- BusinessUnit is on the contract surface (0.34.0), so the endpoints plugin
stops reaching into a core table with raw SQL.
- A test walks every asset type descriptor and proves the endpoint it names
really refuses a caller without the declared permission.
- The plugin settings routes now need a permission; they were telling anyone
which modules a site runs and where its components live.
- The connection pool is sized explicitly with a short timeout, and the
arithmetic against the server's connection ceiling is written next to the
worker count instead of being left to defaults nobody chose.
- Fleet alerts carry both the correct lowercase keys and the old camelCase
pair. Trays older than 1.7.0 match keys case-sensitively and would have gone
quiet on every PC not yet upgraded; the old pair goes when they are.
- The dev server proxy points at localhost again, with environment variables
for the remote-box workflow, and one developer's address is out of the
server certificate page.
All three found testing the bootstrap installer on Windows.
- The published command used the irm-pipe-iex form, which Microsoft Defender
detects as Trojan:Win32/Commando.A!ml and kills before it runs, every time,
on a default install. The command now downloads the script to a file, runs
it, and removes it in a finally block, which Defender does not object to.
The UI also offers the script as a plain download for a tech who would
rather save it.
- Approving a request only linked the asset, so a PC whose pending reason was
"unknown hostname" - which is every PC installed this way - kept getting 403
on every call afterwards, because its computer record had no hostname to
match the credential against. Approval now stamps the hostname when the
record has none, refuses with a 409 naming both when the record has a
different one, and overwrites only when the admin confirms. The Credentials
tab offers that confirmation.
- A hostname that resolves to no record now says so instead of reading as an
impostor, while still refusing the request.
- While waiting for approval the agent retried on the 15-minute telemetry
cadence, so a PC approved immediately enrolled a quarter of an hour later
and the installer always ended on "still pending". It now retries about
every minute for the first ten minutes, then every five to thirty minutes,
then every fifteen, with jitter. A rate limit or server error still uses the
slower backoff.
An admin generates a short-lived token in Settings > Endpoints > Endpoints and
copies the command it produces. A tech runs that one line in an elevated
PowerShell on a PC with no agent:
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://<server>/shopdb/api/
endpoints/siteagent/bootstrap.ps1?t=<token> | iex"
The script refuses to run unelevated, refuses a PC that already has the agent
(a managed bay gets it from GE-Enforce), downloads the package the existing
builder produces, checks both binaries against the hashes the server baked in,
installs with NO shared key, and reports what happened. The PC then asks to
enroll and waits for an admin to approve it, which the script watches for
locally for two minutes before exiting.
- New endpointbootstraptokens table and migration
endpoints0024bootstraptokens: hash only, expiry, use count, revoke.
- Admin routes to generate, list and revoke tokens; the secret is shown once.
- Two token-only routes: the script, and the package (which spends a use).
Anything wrong with the token answers 404 rather than confirming it exists,
both are rate limited per address and both are audited with the caller.
- The package builder is now shared rather than duplicated, and a bootstrap
package can never carry a collector key.
Found in the Windows VM re-test.
- A CA-flagged server certificate (common with a plain openssl self-signed
cert) produced an installer package with no pin at all, so agent 1.20
refused the server. The package now always carries the SPKI pin of the
certificate PCs receive; the CA flag only skips the trusted-root import.
When an uploaded CA-flagged certificate differs from the server's own, both
pins are included. The build response carries X-ShopDB-Build-Warning and the
installer logs what older agents need.
- Pins written into appsettings.json by the installer were merged with the
registry, so removing a pin from HKLM never took effect. When the ServerPins
value exists in the registry it is now authoritative, even when empty;
appsettings pins apply only when it is absent. Set-ShopDBServerPins.ps1
-Clear deletes the value; new -None writes an empty value (no pins).
- A script or package download sent with a credential revoked moments earlier
got 401 CREDENTIAL_INVALID and failed the command. The agent now retries that
download once with the shared key and records the fallback in the result.
Found in the Windows VM re-test.
- A PC installed without the shared key got 401 from POST
/api/endpoints/enroll while the shared key was allowed, so no request was
recorded and no admin could approve it. Enroll now never refuses: a valid
shared key only decides auto-issue on a clean match; no key or an invalid
key creates or updates the one pending request for that hostname and
serial. An approved request still issues only to its own nonce.
- A PC blocked with "server certificate not trusted by this PC" could never be
queued again after trust was fixed, because the blocker comes from its last
failed upgrade. Naming the PC in a wave now queues it when trust is its only
blocker, and the response lists it under "retried"; "next n" still skips
it. The Migration table lets such a PC be selected.
- counts.pending on GET /enrollment counts pending requests, including ones
for unknown hostnames; counts.pendingcomputers keeps the per-computer figure.
- Endpoints (shared key) page: the key is presented as what PCs use until
they enroll, with enrollment progress, a link to Enrollment, rewritten
guidance, and rotate/revoke confirmations that say how many PCs are not
enrolled yet.
- Settings cards describe the server certificate as what PCs actually
receive, on IIS or Docker; Enrollment has its own icon (the icon set lacked
the one the Server Certificate card already asked for).
- Server Certificate page checks the certificate the site presents at its
public address and compares its pin with the certificate file, warning when
they differ. The host comes from site settings only; the check is a TLS
handshake, never an HTTP request.
- Fleet list: Credential column and filter (enrolled, pending, re-enroll
blocked, shared key, not reporting), computed in the list query.
- PC detail: credential state, prefix and dates for fleet readers, state only
for others, with admin Revoke (optionally blocking re-enrollment) and Allow
re-enrollment.
- Dashboard: pending enrollment requests, and PCs blocked from re-enrolling
for more than seven days.
- Runbook: where to find each of these in the app.
Found in an end-to-end test on a Windows 11 VM against a self-signed server.
- Rollback: a 1.20 agent re-enrolls within a second of an un-enroll, so an
older agent pushed afterwards arrived on an enrolled PC and was refused.
Revoke now takes {"blockreenroll": true, "reason": ...}; a blocked PC is
never issued a credential and keeps working on the shared key until
POST .../assets/<assetid>/allow-reenroll. The Enrollment page offers the
block when un-enrolling and shows blocked PCs with an allow button.
- First upgrade of old agents: agents before 1.20 check the server
certificate when downloading the upgrade, so a store wave failed on PCs that
do not trust a self-signed server while the Migration tab said ready. A
failed download now marks the PC blocked with "server certificate not
trusted by this PC". New Install-ShopDBServerCertificate.ps1 (GE-Enforce,
SYSTEM) adds a non-CA server certificate to the trusted roots after checking
its thumbprint; the server certificate page offers a .cer download and the
SHA-1 thumbprint.
- The generated installer writes ServerPins (with an optional next pin for a
planned rotation), can leave the shared key out so the PC waits for
approval, never touches an existing credential, and skips the trusted-root
import for a CA certificate.
- The agent re-reads server pins about every 60 seconds and recycles pooled
connections within 2 minutes, so a pin change needs no restart.
- An alert can only be acknowledged by a PC it targets.
- A wave no longer counts a PC as failed after a later wave upgraded it.
- The scripts report a pin mismatch only when the pin really is missing, and
otherwise log the real error.
- Runbook: trust step before the first wave, rollback order, pin re-read,
verifying the pin against the live URL; agent contract updated.
Per-PC credentials (replaces the 09-14 client-certificate attempt):
- POST /api/endpoints/enroll issues a credential to a PC that matches exactly
one computer by hostname and BIOS serial and has none yet. Anything else
(unknown or duplicate hostname, serial mismatch, already enrolled) waits as
a request an admin approves or rejects. The agent's persisted nonce binds an
approved request to the PC that asked.
- One auth helper serves every agent route. With X-Endpoint-Credential the
asset comes from the credential and a request naming another PC gets 403
ASSET_MISMATCH. The shared key still works for PCs that have not enrolled,
is refused (401 SHARED_KEY_REFUSED) for any PC that has, and can be switched
off. A revoked credential gets 401 CREDENTIAL_INVALID so the agent
re-enrolls.
- The core collector accepts the credential for the computers, printers and
endpoints collectors through two new plugin hooks exposed on shopdb.api
(contract 0.33.0), and refuses the shared key for enrolled PCs.
- Admin API: enrollment list, approve, reject, revoke (un-enroll), settings.
Migration API: per-PC readiness with blockers, and upgrade waves that
package the agent once and queue the existing agent upgrade per PC.
- Migration 0023 creates endpointcredentials, endpointenrollrequests and
endpointmigrationwaves, drops the certificate columns from assets where
test databases have them, and renames app_fingerprint to appfingerprint.
0021 and 0022 keep their ids but no longer alter the core assets table.
- Removed: client_cert.py, certificate renewal, the unauthenticated
/test/client-cert route, nginx client certificate forwarding and the agent
certificate script. The client-cert header could be forged on IIS, the key
was readable by users, and the shared key remained a fallback.
- GET /settings/server-cert returns the SPKI SHA-256 pin for GE-Enforce.
Review fixes:
- report_command_result used g without importing it; every result was a 500.
- collect_log refuses setup answer files, appsettings, agent directories and
key files at enqueue.
- Fleet alerts: alerttimeout and alertfleet agree with the migration, the
scope is validated and a malformed scope no longer reaches the whole fleet,
and the ack race no longer raises NameError.
- A refused break-glass override leaves no hold and no audit row.
- Agent upgrade checks locks and permissions before repackaging, and writes
the package atomically.
- Server certificate upload validates the pair before replacing files;
generation no longer builds an openssl config from user input; audit rows
are actually written.
- Health evaluation runs in a savepoint so a caught error cannot lose the
check-in.
- Required-app policies are found by appid, survive renames, and deleting an
app deactivates policies that still name it. The UI and API now say such a
policy only takes effect inside a business policy.
- Backfill handles duplicate fingerprints and rolls back a failed batch.
- Plugin settings routes skip a plugin whose hook raises.
- The setup token is no longer printed to the log.
- The naming gate checks top-level files again and handles odd file names.
- Removed root scratch scripts, one of which carried a token.
- Rewrote the fleet alert scheduling and app delta tests on real fixtures.
This commit adds:
- Database migrations for app_delta fingerprints and client certificates
- Scripts for certificate generation and fingerprint backfilling
- Comprehensive security audit reports and findings tracking
- Implementation documentation for certificate authentication
- Test utilities for certificate renewal and fingerprinting
- GE-ENFORCE collector fix documentation
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bug Fix: Fleet alert scheduling regression
Problem:
- User sets notification to run at 3:30 PM (future time)
- Fleet alert sent to agents immediately at 3:10 PM instead of waiting
- Agents see notification 20 minutes early
Root Cause:
- GET /api/endpoints/alerts query filtered for:
- alertfleet = True
- isactive = True
- endtime is NULL OR endtime > now (not expired)
- Not acknowledged
- MISSING CHECK: starttime is NULL OR starttime <= now (has started)
- Result: Any notification with future starttime appeared immediately
Solution:
- Added starttime filter to fleet alert query (routes.py:4151-4153)
- Query now checks:
db.or_(
Notification.starttime.is_(None),
Notification.starttime <= now
)
- Notifications with future starttime excluded until that time
Behavior After Fix:
- Notification with no starttime: appears immediately (existing behavior)
- Notification with past starttime: appears immediately (existing behavior)
- Notification with future starttime: waits until that time (FIXED)
- Notification with past endtime: never appears (existing behavior)
Testing:
- tests/test_plugins/test_endpoints_fleet_alert_scheduling.py
- test_fleet_alert_respects_future_starttime (regression test)
- test_fleet_alert_with_no_starttime_appears_immediately
- test_fleet_alert_past_starttime_appears
- test_fleet_alert_expired_does_not_appear
Timeline Example:
- 3:10 PM: User creates notification with starttime=3:30 PM, alertfleet=True
- 3:15 PM: Agent polls /api/endpoints/alerts -> empty (starttime not reached)
- 3:35 PM: Agent polls again -> alert appears (starttime has passed)
Impact:
- Agents poll every 60 seconds, so scheduled alerts appear within 1 minute of starttime
- No database migration needed (starttime column already exists)
- Backwards compatible (NULL starttime still means immediate)
Related:
- Notification.is_current property already checks starttime (models/notification.py:162-169)
- Shopfloor board respects starttime correctly
- Only fleet alert endpoint had this regression
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Gate collect_log on a minimum agent version and bridge the agent version
store to the applications table so a staged build can actually be pushed.
update_app resolves an install source from the applications table alone; it
cannot see agentstore. A build could therefore be staged and current while no
application row existed at all, which is what the fleet was in: the agent was
unpushable. Staging is now the single source of truth - it packages the
current build and upserts the row in the same request, so the row cannot
describe a build that is no longer staged.
PARTIAL BUILD ADVISORY
This is steps 1-4 of a longer rollout and is deliberately incomplete:
- There is no push trigger yet. The registered package is resolvable and
verifiable, but nothing enqueues an upgrade; the "behind current build"
indicator is still display-only.
- The upgrade template script, its script row, and the enqueue route
(endpoints.agentupdate) are not written.
- Blocking constraint for the next slice: run_script executes
powershell.exe -File <script> with NO argument channel, so a delivered
upgrade script cannot be passed BaseUrl/CollectorKey and must either
source them itself or run_script must be extended first.
Nothing here touches a live endpoint. Staging only changes what a future
push would contain.
Details:
- Package members carry a fixed timestamp. zipfile stamps the current mtime
by default, so identical input produced a different archive digest on
every call. update_app pins a download by SHA-256, so a drifting hash
would rewrite installersha256 out from under an endpoint mid-download and
fail its verification.
- All three routes that can change 'current' re-register (upload,
adopt-legacy, rollback). Covering only upload would leave the row pinned
to the build an operator just rolled away from, and the push would ship
it anyway - silent drift.
- Registration cannot fail an upload. The binary is staged and audited by
the time it runs, so a packaging problem is reported in the response
payload rather than raised; returning an error would tell the operator a
successful upload was rejected.
- The package is written to a temp name and os.replace'd, so an interrupted
write cannot leave a truncated archive at the path the row advertises.
- The row is isinstallable but hidden: machine-managed, and it must not
appear in the software catalogue beside real licensed applications.
- Added application_package_location() to the shopdb.api contract surface
(lazy, matching collector_authorized) returning the package directory and
URL prefix together. agentregistry reached into shopdb.core internals,
violating the plugin import contract; sourcing both from one place also
stops the write location and installpath from drifting apart.
collect_log is refused at enqueue below its minimum agent version, with
numeric comparison - string ordering misplaces 1.9.0.0 against 1.16.0. The
refusal is mirrored in the UI so a command slot is not spent on a call that
is guaranteed to fail.
Test isolation: create_app('testing') resolves instance_path to the real repo
instance/ directory, so agent upload tests write into the developer's actual
store. The new tests redirect both the store and package output into tmp_path
and include a guard test that fails if that isolation regresses. NOTE: the
pre-existing test_endpoints_agentupload.py still has this leak and deposits
1.5.0.0 and 1.6.3 into instance/siteagent/ on a full run - not fixed here.
Suite: 2834 passed, 11 skipped. The two failures (test_docs_publishable, and
a symlink scan needing Windows privileges) were confirmed pre-existing by
stashing this work and reproducing them.
Log Collector: a new collect_log action reads a plaintext log file from a
known path and returns its tail for viewing and download. Rides the existing
endpoints.updateapp grant rather than inventing one, since collecting a log is
the same trust level as pushing an application. Collected logs land in their
own table with per-asset retention of 20 instead of overloading the command
audit row, and the agent refuses UNC, traversal, wildcards, directories and
non-text content independently of the server check.
collect_log is POLICY_EXEMPT. Every existing Configuration Policy predates the
action and so cannot name it, and the intersection in ALLOWED_ACTIONS_FOR drops
anything unnamed - so every policied endpoint refused log collection outright,
including for admins, who saw a permission-shaped error for a grant they held.
Exemption from policy is not exemption from permission: the elevated grant
still applies, and a regression test asserts both halves so a future edit
cannot quietly loosen the grant while "fixing" the policy gate.
Script output capture: successful runs can return output, gated per script by
captureoutput. Failures always returned it; success never did, which left a
green badge as the only evidence a run produced.
Timestamps: Activity and Operator Reports rendered date-only because the shared
formatter's 'date' branch drops the clock time. Run Scripts additionally
labels its timestamp, since a bare time meant "completed" on a terminal row but
"queued" on an in-flight one - indistinguishable, and the wrong reading.
Agent 1.16.0. Minor: collect_log is a new action name, so an older agent asked
for it fails closed on the unknown-action default.
alertscope was stored, serialised and editable in the authoring form but
never read when alerts were handed to an endpoint, so every fleet alert
went to every machine regardless of what was entered. The control implied
a capability nothing enforced.
get_fleet_alerts now resolves the polling endpoint's facts and filters
each alert through its scope. Supported keys: hostname, assettype,
computertype, location, businessunit. A key may hold one value or a list
(any match), matching is case-insensitive since these are operator-typed
names, and multiple keys narrow together.
Unrecognised keys are ignored rather than treated as match-nothing. A
typo like {"hostnam": "BAY-01"} would otherwise mute the alert fleet-wide
and look identical to a delivery failure; sending wider than intended is
the safe direction for something whose job is to warn people. A garbled
non-dict scope falls back to the whole fleet for the same reason. The
real fix for typos belongs at authoring time, not delivery.
BusinessUnit is not exported from shopdb.api, so its name is resolved by
table rather than importing the model and breaking the plugin import
contract.
Ten tests cover the narrowing cases and the fail-open behaviour.
The wj merge brought in a half-built fleet alert feature: server-side UI
behaviour still being stood up over a delivery proof of concept. It left
five red tests. This clears them and fixes a real hole underneath.
The cross-machine guard never ran. acknowledge_fleet_alert read .assetid
off _resolve_asset_for_hostname, which returns the id itself, so the
check raised AttributeError on every call and answered 500. That guard is
what stops one endpoint acknowledging another's alert, and the collector
key is shared across the fleet, so until now any bay could clear an alert
on another machine's behalf. Compare the id directly.
Gate both alert routes the way the rest of the agent channel is gated.
They are collector-key authenticated, not JWT+role, because a shop floor
bay has no user session - the same shape as claim_next_command and
upload_operator_report. Declared in the authz allowlists with the reason,
rather than inventing a permission no agent could hold.
Settle the delivery contract ahead of the durable agent work. The poll
response is authoritative for a host: every alert that should be live on
it right now. An alert absent from the feed is the agent's instruction to
retire the pending toast, which is how a server-side close or cancel
reaches a machine already displaying one. Acknowledgement is terminal per
product decision, so a close after an ack is a no-op and the agent can
retry a queued ack safely. A toast that merely timed out is not an
acknowledgement.
Stop reaching past the plugin contract surface for the mailer. One import
was a plain redirect; the other pulled a private helper to pre-check
recipients, duplicating what send_alert already does. It also returned
early when no email recipients existed, which silently suppressed the
independent webhook leg - misconfigured SMTP was dropping Teams alerts.
Register NotificationAcknowledgement in get_models() and give the
notifications plugin ownership of notificationacknowledgements, then move
the expected head to notifications0006fleetalerts.
Add the coverage whose absence let the .assetid bug ship. Thirteen tests
over gating, authoritative-feed withdrawal, terminal and idempotent
acknowledgement, per-asset scoping, and the cross-machine guard. Five of
them fail against the pre-fix handler.
Remaining suite failures are pre-existing and local: the symlink scan
needs elevation, and the docs check wants files absent from this checkout.
The product shipped one Configuration Policy carrying every shopfloor app
monitor, wrapped in a shipped Site Policy that applied it to every endpoint.
That bundled two decisions a site cannot separate: which monitors exist, and
which endpoints get them. A site that wanted eDNC on one PC type and MTConnect
on another had to delete the shipped policy and rebuild both halves.
Ship one Configuration Policy per monitor with no PC type attribution, and stop
shipping a Site Policy at all. Composition is a site decision; the product now
supplies parts, not an assembled opinion.
Shipped Configuration Policies become editable and deletable. Provenance stays
a source tag rather than a lock, which is safe because seeding is insert-if-
absent and no reconciling seeder exists, so a site edit is never stomped. The
stale comments claiming shipped rows were read-only and reconciled described
behavior the code never had.
Operator report screenshots are an uncontrolled capture of whatever was
on the operator's screen when they filed the report, so they can carry
part numbers, customer names, or other shopfloor content. The rest of
endpoints.view is uniform machine-collected telemetry. Reading a PC's
CPU load does not imply a right to read someone's screen, so the reports
and their images move to endpoints.operatorreports.
The image route is the real control point, not the panel: the panel only
decides whether a tab is drawn, while the bytes stay reachable by URL to
anyone who can guess an id. Both GET routes now require the new grant.
Migration 7d47 backfills the grant to everyone holding endpoints.view so
nobody loses a panel they were already using; tightening from there is a
per-account decision in the user editor. The grant is in the scope
denylist, so it is a per-user direct grant and Reporter cannot hold it.
Also adds test_user_editor_checkboxes_match_the_server_action_list. The
SCOPE_ENDPOINT_ACTIONS comment claimed a sync guard kept the Vue
checkbox list aligned with the Python tuple, but no such test existed.
The lists had already drifted: endpoints.operatorreports reached a
running container with no way to grant it through the UI. The guard
catches drift in both directions - a name only in Python ships the
feature dark, and a name only in Vue is worse, since the admin ticks a
box and believes access was granted while the server refuses to store it.
Soft delete left orphaned executables on disk and let a deleted name collide
with a fresh import, so delete is now a hard delete that removes the
associated files. The destructive paths (delete, revert-to-record) require a
typed OK because neither can be undone.
Installers keep their filename at import and nest per application/version,
which stops repeat imports doubling up. Version now comes from the same PE
detection the endpoints agent uses; when no version can be read the caller is
asked for one rather than silently storing a blank.
Applications also surface Version and a monitorable toggle, with launch path
and process name required only while monitorable is ticked. Fleet shows the
PC alias, matching PC Details.
The policy builder only offered "Matches everything" (the `true` scope node),
which also targets servers. Authoring an estate-wide policy almost always means
"every PC an operator sits at", and a reboot or script push against a server is
a materially different event.
Adds an `allpcs` scope node that matches every endpoint except those whose
computer type is server-designated. Server designation reads the computer type's
ICON slug, which is nominally a UI hint and is now load-bearing; it was chosen
over matching the type NAME (a site can rename "Server") and over a new isserver
column (needs a migration). It is isolated behind SERVER_ICON so promoting it to
a real flag later is a one-place change.
The `true` node is retained and still matches servers, so existing policies keep
their exact meaning rather than silently re-scoping. It stays visible in the
dropdown only when editing a policy that already uses it; new policies default
to `allpcs`.
Covered by tests/test_plugins/test_computers_policy_allpcs.py, verified against
a planted canary so the server-exclusion assertions are known to bite.
Adds PolicyActionHold so an admin can suspend specific actions on a computer without editing the policy itself, covering the break-glass case where a machine must be quiesced immediately. Holds cover multiple actions in one atomic submission rather than one row per action, so a partial failure cannot leave a half-applied hold. Duration is free-form with 0 meaning indefinite (migration 0006 makes expiresat nullable); the prior fixed ceiling was removed because an admin quiescing a misbehaving machine does not know in advance how long it needs, and a hold silently expiring is worse than one that must be cleared deliberately. The What This Does explainer reflects indefinite holds.
collect_now exemption: refreshing status was denied on any endpoint with a non-empty effective policy even when the caller held the matching grant, because policy intersection silently removed the action. collect_now is a read-only status refresh with no side effects, so it now sits in POLICY_EXEMPT_ACTIONS alongside the other routine actions. Verified against a synthetic non-empty policy: operators can refresh status again while every write action stays gated.
Endpoint locks
--------------
Adds EndpointLock so an admin can hold an endpoint against automated and
operator action, with migration 0018 and enforcement in the enqueue path
rather than only in the UI, so a lock cannot be bypassed by calling the
API directly.
Split endpoints.deploy
----------------------
endpoints.deploy bundled three actions of very different risk behind a
single name:
scheduledtask_run -> starts a task already registered and allowlisted
update_app -> runs a pinned installer
run_script -> arbitrary code as SYSTEM unless the descriptor
pins a user context
Because they shared one grant there was no way to let an operator push an
application update without also handing them arbitrary SYSTEM code
execution on every endpoint they could reach. The permission name
described the lightest of the three while silently carrying the heaviest.
commands.ELEVATED_ACTION_PERMISSIONS now maps each action to its own
permission (endpoints.corptools, endpoints.updateapp,
endpoints.runscript). The enqueue route reads that table, so no route
logic changed. Migration 7d42 preserves existing access exactly: anyone
holding endpoints.deploy receives all three replacements.
Fleet ranked endpoints by raw critical-event counts, so a machine with a
noisy but harmless event log outranked one with a mapped drive down or a
blocking service stopped. Volume is not severity, and the aggregation ran
across the whole fleet on every page load.
Rank operational blockers above degraded conditions above event noise, and
cache the verdict per asset so Fleet reads a row instead of recomputing 48h
of history. Transitions are written only when a verdict changes, capped at
50 rows per asset.
Absence of a policy binding must never suppress a verdict: drives and events
are not policy-gated, and services fall back to a built-in default impact
when no mapping applies. Event 1001 drops to informational because the WER
bucket pairs with 1000 and double-counted every crash.
Parallelize the Fleet first-paint loaders that were awaiting serially.
Corporate Tools tab on PC Details, gated by endpoints.deploy and liveness.
Starts already-registered scheduled tasks; the agent's ScheduledTaskPolicy
allowlist remains the authority on what may actually run.
Dell Command | Update split into two actions (Scan, Apply Updates) because
they have very different consequences. Apply Updates carries a persistent
breakglass warning in the card naming Tanium as the primary update utility,
rendered between the row title and description so it is visible at all times
rather than only in the confirm dialog. Destructive actions keep the typed
RUN confirmation.
Fix scheduledtask_run being stripped by Configuration Policy: the
intersection in ALLOWED_ACTIONS_FOR dropped it on any endpoint whose
effective policy was non-empty, so every Corporate Tools click failed with
"not permitted by policy" regardless of the caller's role. Corporate tools
are role-gated only, via POLICY_EXEMPT_ACTIONS; policy keeps authority over
monitors and service/process primitives.
Fix blank PC Details page: watch(detailtabs) evaluates its source during
setup and read canDeploy before its const declaration, throwing a TDZ
ReferenceError that aborted setup with no API request made.
Mapped-drive refresh moves to the tray. SYSTEM cannot probe user-scoped
drives, so the service requests a re-probe over a named event and waits for
the spool collectedat stamp to advance before collecting. The probe task is
registered as a ShopFloor user principal; the Users-group principal remains
only as a degraded fallback since a group member cannot start it.
Details tab card layout
-----------------------
The Details tab sat on .content-grid, a two-column CSS grid. Grid packs
items into implicit rows, so every row is as tall as its tallest card and
align-items:start leaves the shorter one with dead space beneath it:
Warranty is short, Endpoint Status is tall, and Policy had to wait for the
taller of the two rather than sliding up. That read as a staggered layout.
Switched that one tab to multicol via a .details-flow modifier, which has no
rows at all - each card starts where the previous one ended, so the holes
close while cards still size to their content.
Multicol is deliberately NOT applied to .content-grid globally. The note by
that rule in style.css records why it was abandoned there: a column-span:all
child (.pap-span, used by table panels) overlaps the shorter column when the
two are unequal. That cannot happen on this tab - every panel in the details
group is a keyvalue or list render, and spansFullWidth() only returns true
for table (or a tabs panel holding one), so nothing in the subtree spans.
Monitors and Service/Process DO carry table panels and stay on grid.
The modifier is scoped to PCDetail, so the nine other detail views on
.content-grid are untouched.
Chosen over JS masonry on purpose. Masonry packs perfectly but has to
measure every card and re-measure on resize, on panel collapse and on every
async panel load - and these panels fetch after paint, so it would mean
continuous forced reflow on a page that already polls. This is pure CSS:
no measurement, no observer, no runtime cost. The tradeoff accepted is that
column bottoms can end at slightly different heights.
Cards carry break-inside: avoid so none fragments across the column break,
and the 25px spacing returns as a margin because multicol has no gap between
stacked items the way grid does.
IP Configuration card
---------------------
Removed: the data has no purpose on the page anymore. Taken out at the root
rather than hidden - the panel declaration, the /asset/<id>/ipconfig route
and the _IPCONFIG_COLUMNS constant all go, since a route with no consumer is
dead surface that still answers requests.
test_the_two_cards_do_not_duplicate_columns_beyond_the_address existed only
to police the history/config column split; with one card gone it guards
nothing, so it and its import go with it. The panel-count assertion in
test_endpoints_asset_panels_are_computer_scoped moves 15 -> 14, which is the
test doing its job and catching the removal.
IP History is unchanged and still carries the address list.
Not addressed here: three tzset() tests in test_endpoints_plugin.py fail on
Windows because time.tzset() is Unix-only. Verified pre-existing against
unmodified code; they pass in the Linux container.
Mapped drives stopped reporting because the user-context path failed silently
in three separate places, and none of them left a trace to read back.
- Probe: launch via -EncodedCommand instead of staging a temp .ps1 and running
powershell.exe -File. A missing or quarantined script file fails BEFORE any
statement runs, so the script's own try/catch never sees it and the only
symptom is exit -196608.
- Spool: pin to the ShopFloor profile. Resolving it through WTSQueryUserToken
is privileged, endpoint protection blocks it, and on failure the tray
(writer) and service (reader) silently disagree about the path.
- Spool: consume after a successful parse, so a stopped tray cannot keep
re-reporting stale mapped drives as current. Unparseable files are left in
place for the next cycle.
- Logging: user-session components cannot write to Program Files or to the
SYSTEM-owned ProgramData log directory, and the file sink degrades to a
silent no-op when it cannot create its directory. Tray and probe now log to
C:\Users\ShopFloor\ShopDB\Logs, installs transcript to ProgramData, and the
sink records a SinkProblem instead of swallowing UnauthorizedAccessException.
- Installer: provision the operator spool/log directories with ShopFloor:Modify
before the tray first runs, and stop the transcript via trap so a throw
cannot orphan exactly the failed install worth reading.
- Upload cap 64 -> 128 MB: the self-contained tray publishes at ~69 MB and was
rejected on SIZE, but the size check returns before the PE is parsed, so the
operator only ever saw a version-detection failure.
AGENT-CONTRACT.md gains a normative section defining the three security
contexts, their log destinations, the fixed spool path and consume-on-read.
Agent 1.8.0 -> 1.8.1, tray 1.1.0 -> 1.1.1 so the deployed build is
identifiable from a log line.
asset_panels() rewrites any group missing from ASSET_PANEL_GROUPS to 'details' before the client sees it, and Phase 3 never added 'serviceprocess' there. Both panels were relabelled on the wire, so the tab could not appear no matter how consistent the frontend was. That is why the tab was still missing after the schema fix - a second, unrelated cause wearing the same symptom.
Operator Reports moves out of System Monitors into a tab of its own: that tab is machine-collected health, this is a person reporting something, and the thumbnail grid dwarfed the fact cards it sat between. Full width, since it is alone in the tab.
panelGroups.spec.js claimed to cover four files and checked two; it now reads the server tuple as well. The plugin test's hand-copied set was a fifth copy and now derives from the server tuple instead.
Mapped drives existed only as a comma-joined line in the user context card, which is fine for three drives and unreadable for a dozen. They now get their own list card in Monitors: one row per letter, remote path as meta, health as a badge. Reuses the statecolor/levels vocabulary the tracked-services cards already declare rather than new CSS. Only unhealthy drives are coloured. Green on every working drive makes the broken one just another badge in a row of badges, and the card exists to make the exception findable at a glance. Unhealthy rows sort first for the same reason - a user with a dozen mappings should not hunt for the broken one - and the sort is on health alone, so drive-letter order survives within each group and the list does not reshuffle between refreshes. The merge logic is untouched. _mapped_drive_rows now returns structured rows and the user-context summary line is built from them, so the card and the line cannot drift apart about a drive's status. The two silent-failure paths are mutation-tested: forcing every badge green failed 7 tests, and the first sort test passed a mutation that added a secondary key because every broken drive in it said the same word - it now uses statuses that would reorder under a text sort. Also corrects a stale warning claiming the merge is untested; it has been covered since Phase 1.
Volume capacity and physical drive health were two adjacent cards, and the operator reading a full disk is usually the operator reading a dying disk in the same minute. They are now one Storage card with two sections. Visual grouping only - the two tables share no key, storage being per volume and health per physical device, and one drive can back several volumes or none the operator sees. Nothing is reconciled across the sections; this is not the mapped-drive merge where two sources described the same drive and the worse status won. The tabs render type was the only sections-in-one-card mechanism and emitted label/value fields with no table path, so it now takes table sections too. That is the renderer every plugin uses, so both behaviour changes in it are mutation-tested. Two things only surfaced on contact: the empty-section filter had to grow a table branch, because a table section declares columns up front and dropping it when it has no rows takes its tab with it and reads as no disks rather than nothing reported; and full-width span was keyed off the declared render type, but a tabs panel holding a six-column table needs the same span and that is only knowable from fetched data. The diskhealth route stays. It no longer backs a panel, but it is a stable read for callers outside the renderer and removing it for a UI-only change would break them.
Tracked Services and Tracked Processes were sharing a tab with system health cards, so what is running on the box and how the box itself is doing read as one list. They now sit in a Service/Process Monitors tab and the old tab is System Monitors. The group vocabulary is duplicated across the renderer, the tab map and the panel declarations with nothing checking they agree, and a group named in one but not the others is dropped in silence - that has eaten cards twice. Tests now pin the vocabulary on both sides. Boot type and NIC link state were collected in Phase 2 but shown nowhere. Boot type only renders when fast startup applies, because uptime measured from a resume understates how long the kernel has been up and that is the case worth naming. Link state leaves a disconnected NIC unknown rather than half duplex: live hardware returns empty speed and duplex when unplugged, and half duplex is the cable fault signature this column exists to catch.
Every test pins a way the card could start showing a failing or unreadable drive as fine, which is the only failure mode that matters here: nobody investigates a disk that looks healthy.
Covers failure-first ordering, null predictfailure reading as unknown rather than OK, unknown outranking OK, both sources surviving for one drive, order independence, and malformed payloads. The ranking was mutation-checked: swapping the unknown and OK ranks fails the suite.
Also updates the panel count assertion, which correctly caught the new card.
_mapped_drives decides whether an operator is shown a fault, and had no tests.
Its only failure mode that matters is rendering a broken drive as working -
nobody reports a drive that looks fine, so that failure is silent by nature.
Covers the disagreement from the real capture (Get-SmbMapping OK vs net use
Disconnected), single-source drives, a missing smbmapping key entirely (the
live shape until the agent republish lands), absent status becoming Unknown
rather than blank, and malformed payload rows.
Each test was checked by mutation rather than trusted for being green. That
caught a bad one: the unrecognised-status test paired the unknown against
Unavailable, which wins on severity however unknowns are ranked, so the test
proved nothing. Pairing it against OK exposed something worse - with unknowns
ranked equal to OK the two TIE, and min() then resolves by argument order, so
the verdict depended on which source happened to report which status rather
than on severity. A drive would read healthy or broken based on enumeration
order.
Hence test_which_source_reported_a_status_does_not_change_the_verdict, which
asserts both directions of each pair. A single-direction assertion passes on
luck; asserting both is what makes an accidental tie visible. It is the test
that fails when the ranking is broken - the others stay green.
The hardware, OS and storage inventory had columns and data but nowhere to
be read: the only per-PC card was the status keyvalue, so a machine's
processor, firmware, disks and listening ports were reachable only by
querying the database.
Adds four Monitors cards - Hardware, Operating system, Storage, Listening
ports - split by the question each answers rather than by which JSON blob
they came from. OS and BIOS share one card deliberately; apart they are
three short rows each. A card yields no fields when its columns are null,
so an endpoint on an older agent hides them rather than showing a grid of
blanks.
User context is declared last on the page. The probe feeding it is not yet
producing output, so it reads empty for now, and being last means an empty
card sits below the populated ones instead of pushing them down.
The Activity feed showed a title and an event id, but the title is the
catalog name for that id - the same text on every occurrence - so two
different faults read identically. Rows now carry the provider name, and
the stored message body expands in place when the severity badge is
clicked. Commands expand to their result message, which is the reason a
failed one failed.
The badge doubles as the expander rather than gaining a control beside it,
and it keeps its severity label when open: swapping that for "Hide" would
cost the at-a-glance severity scan down the feed. Being a button rather
than a span, it is also now keyboard reachable.
map.body is additive in the shared renderer - panels that do not declare
it render exactly as before.
Uploading an agent build whose product version carried semver build metadata
(1.5.0+abcdef) was rejected, because the typed version string was validated as
a dotted-numeric value before the file was ever read. That string is only a
hint from the operator, and the build metadata it carries is not a legal
directory name for the version store.
The authority is the dotted-numeric FILE version stamped in the binary PE
resource, so validation now happens after the upload is parsed: when the typed
value is missing or not dotted-numeric, fall back to the detected version, and
reject only when neither yields a usable one.
Ben Baker's installed-software collection, software delivery (run_script and
update_app), agentless adoption tool and command-queue hardening, with his
authorship preserved.
Reviewed before promotion. Fixed: the endpoints plugin tests were never collected
by pytest, the SBOM snapshot table's key would exhaust on MySQL, ingest did not
truncate two columns strict MySQL would reject, and update_app's version branch
pinned a digest for a file that route never serves. Agent packaging moved off
require_role('admin') onto a new endpoints.agentpackage permission.
Contract 0.27.0. Full suite 2231, frontend 314.
