Agent 1.45.48 Release Notes

Fixes

• Fixes for agent connections when using the AUTOMOX_PROXY environment variable
• Migrated Windows fingerprinting off of wmic.exe to support Windows 11 24H2 systems

Improvements

• Added new parallel communication back-end in preparation for future agent improvements
  • New Firewall Rules: These updates do not require firewall allow list changes, but a future agent release will require the following additional rules to upgrade. We recommend adding these rules as soon as possible to ensure your agents stay up-to-date.
    • Host: rtt.automox.com
      • Port: 443
      • Protocols: HTTPS / Secure WebSockets
    • Host: console.automox.com
      • Port: 443
      • Protocols: HTTPS
    • Host: agent-content-cdn.automox.com
      • Port: 443
      • Protocols: HTTPS
• Prompts to grant secure token access to the Automox agent now use macOS system-managed prompts on macOS systems
• Update installer dialog to require PowerShell 5.1 on Windows systems
• Logging upgrades - structured logging
  • Info and greater level severity logs will be delivered to amagent.log with key=value pairs for log fields, enabling easier ingestion by log aggregation tooling and better log message grouping
  • Added a new amagent_debug.log which includes Debug and greater level logs in a JSON format.
• Improved uninstaller behavior for Debian-based Linux systems
  • Removed aptitude dependency for installer
• Add set-connect-delay subcommand to support adjusting the reconnection interval, in seconds, for agent command channel connections to the Automox platform. Maximum value is 300s.
  • Usage: set-connect-delay [flags]
  • Example: set-connect-delay 15s
• Introduced a new feature to enumerate more broadly the attributes of a device, done from osqueryi.exe