Reports a Windows machine the way the Linux agent does, replacing the
"planned" stub in agent/windows: scheduled tasks plus hostname, IPv4
addresses, CPU model/cores/current load, memory, every fixed disk, and
TCP/UDP listening ports with the owning process (which feed the Ports
card, localhost-only listeners included).
Scripts (plain ASCII by design -- they are downloaded as text and Windows
PowerShell 5.1 reads BOM-less files as ANSI):
- report-tasks.ps1: collects and POSTs to /api/agent/report. Works in
Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7. -DryRun prints the JSON.
Microsoft's own \Microsoft\ tasks (hundreds) are left out unless
INCLUDE_MICROSOFT_TASKS is set. Triggers are turned into readable text
("Weekly on Mon, Wed at 03:00", "At logon", "..., repeating every 15 min").
Self-signed certificates work via API_INSECURE on both PowerShell
versions (they need different mechanisms).
- install.ps1: elevated only; downloads the agent to ProgramData, writes
agent.json with permissions locked to SYSTEM and Administrators *before*
the token goes in, and registers a SYSTEM scheduled task (every 15 min
plus at startup with a 2 min delay). Reinstalling replaces the task.
- uninstall.ps1: removes the task and only the files the agent installed.
Server: accepts schedule_type "windows_task"; a server can be registered
as Windows (Add a server has an operating system choice); an agent's
reported os_type ("linux"/"windows", anything else ignored) corrects the
stored one. The Servers page shows the right install and uninstall
command for each OS (Windows PowerShell 5.1 one-liners, with a self-signed
variant and a note about PowerShell 7), and Windows tasks are labelled
"Windows scheduled tasks". The Linux commands are unchanged.
Verified on this Windows machine, in both PowerShell 5.1 and 7:
- Real dry runs found and fixed bugs before anything shipped: tasks and
ports came out as one nested item (return , $out wrapped twice), integer
keys in an ordered dictionary index by position (wrong weekday names),
and generic "Trigger" labels.
- End to end against the real agent-report router: HTTP, self-signed HTTPS
refused by default and accepted with API_INSECURE, wrong token gives a
clear one-line error and exit 1, and Swedish letters plus a euro sign
survive JSON -> UTF-8 -> HTTP -> SQLite.
- 35 checks on trigger/action/duration descriptions, 20 on the installer's
building blocks (task parts built but not registered, credentials file
content and ACL, download over HTTP and self-signed HTTPS), 18 on the
server rules, and the generated one-liners run through PowerShell's
parser. The documented one-liners were run through iex and stop at the
administrator check without changing anything.
- Found that PowerShell 7 ignores the ServicePointManager certificate
override, so the installer's own download now uses -SkipCertificateCheck
there.
NOT verified: the elevated install itself. Registering a SYSTEM scheduled
task needs elevation and changes the machine, so it was not run: the task
registration, that the repeating trigger really runs indefinitely, and
the agent running as SYSTEM under Task Scheduler have not been exercised.
Windows 10 / Server 2016 or newer is assumed; older is untested.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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