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Manage Endpoint Agents

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Endpoint Agents Summary allows you to view and manage endpoints with Taegis™ XDR Endpoint Agents, Red Cloak™ Endpoint Agents, and third-party agents that Secureworks® Taegis™ XDR is aware of.

To view:

  1. From the XDR left-hand side navigation, select Endpoint Agents → Summary.
  2. Endpoint Agents Summary displays a table of endpoints that have been discovered by XDR.

Endpoint Agents

Endpoint Agents

Endpoint Agents Summary Table

The Endpoint Agents Summary table displays quick-view information about each endpoint and its agent.

Use this table to verify the endpoints you installed a supported agent on appear and are connected, as well as other endpoint details.

Notes

  • The Connection Status and Group fields apply only to the Taegis Endpoint Agent.
  • The Isolation Status column populates in the table for Taegis Endpoint Agents and Red Cloak Endpoint Agents only; view the isolation status for third-party agents from the endpoint details.
  • The Last Seen field displays how long ago XDR last received data from the endpoint, while the First Seen fields displays how long ago XDR first received data from the endpoint

The Endpoint Agents Summary table includes the following controls to sort, filter, and arrange data:

Column Menu

Open the menu for available columns in the table by selecting the menu icon to the right of the column name.

Endpoint Agents Summary Column Menu

Endpoint Agents Summary Column Menu

Choose one of the following options:

Choose Columns to Display

Choose which columns you want to appear in the table by opening a column menu, selecting the columns icon, and checking or unchecking the desired columns.

Use the text box to quickly filter for column names.

Arrange Columns

Drag and drop columns by the header to rearrange them.

Sort by Column

Select a column header to change the sort, when available. There are three toggle states:

You can apply sorting to one column at a time.

Filter Endpoint Agents Summary Table

Use the collapsible filter menu at the left of the table to narrow down the list of matching endpoints.

Filter Endpoint Agents Summary Table

Filter Endpoint Agents Summary Table

Agent Status Options

Use the Agent Status Options to filter your view based on the following statuses. By default, Active agents are shown.

Filter Values

For filters that include a Filter values field, the string you enter uses the Contains operator by default. Use a wildcard * at the end of your string to perform a Starts With search, or at the start of your string to perform an Ends With search. For example, to search for hostnames that start with desktop, enter desktop* in the Filter values field of the Hostname filter; alternatively, to search for hostnames that end with local, enter *local.

Filter Values with Wildcard

Filter Values with Wildcard

  1. Enter a text string in the Filter values field to begin filtering the available values.
  2. Hit Enter to display all results for your string in the table, or select individual results using the checkboxes.
  3. Delete your string from the field and hit Enter to remove the filter, or select Clear All from above the table.

View Vulnerability Status

For XDR tenants that also subscribe to Secureworks® Taegis™ VDR, the Vulnerability Status column displays the rollup vulnerability severity score for endpoints that have been mapped to assets in VDR. To add the Vulnerability Status column to the summary table, see Choose Columns to Display.

Vulnerability Status

Vulnerability Status

See Vulnerabilities in the endpoint detailed view for a list of vulnerabilities affecting the endpoint.

Identify Cloud Instances

Identify agents that are deployed as cloud instances with the cloud provider icon that displays before the hostname in the Endpoint Agents Summary table. Endpoints without a cloud identifier record do not have an icon next to the hostname.

Cloud Instance Identifier

Cloud Instance Identifier

Agent side drawer summary and detailed views also display a cloud provider and cloud instance ID when available.

Note

The cloud identifier is currently supported for Taegis Endpoint Agents for Linux and Mac and third-party agents that provide the telemetry. Windows Taegis Endpoint Agents will be supported in a future release.

Select All Endpoints

To select all endpoints resulting from your chosen filters, even if not all results are displayed in the table, follow these steps:

  1. Filter the Endpoint Agents Summary table as needed.
  2. Select the checkbox from the top left of the table header row.
  3. If there are more endpoints resulting from your filters than are currently shown in the table, a message displays above the table with the option to select all results.
  4. Select the link from the message to Select all Agents in results.

Select All Endpoints

Select All Endpoints

Export Endpoints as CSV File

Export Endpoints

Export Endpoints

Export a table of all endpoints or a selected subset of endpoints in CSV format:

View the export status and download the file by selecting Downloads > Data Exports from the left-hand side navigation.

Note

The Export All function exports only the active endpoints included in the table by the filters currently selected.

Add and Remove Endpoint Tags

Tags are assigned to endpoints as a key:value pair to add useful context to the endpoint. The key should be a descriptive, constant identifier, while the value is the associated data from the host.

A few examples of key:value pairs are:

city:atlanta
country:united_states
department:sales
environment:production

Important

You cannot assign two values for the same key on the same endpoint.

Note

key:value pairs are case sensitive. The key must begin with a letter and has a maximum length of 128 characters. The maximum value length is 256 characters. Tags cannot contain spaces, but can contain letters, numbers, and the following symbols: + - = . _ /.

Tags applied to an endpoint appear in the Endpoint Details of both the side drawer summary view and the detailed view.

You can also filter the Endpoint Agents Summary table by tag and add the Tag column to the table. See Filter Endpoints for more information.

Tag a Single Endpoint

Tag Endpoint

Tag Endpoint

  1. Assign a tag to a single endpoint in multiple ways:
  1. Enter a tag key and a value associated with that key. For example, enter group as the key and sales or product_support as the value. Select + Add Tag to bulk assign more than one tag.

  2. Select Preview Changes and then Assign Tags when complete.

Bulk Tag Multiple Endpoints

To bulk tag multiple endpoints at once, follow these steps:

  1. From the Endpoint Agents Summary table, select the checkboxes for the desired endpoints, and then select the Actions menu from above the table and choose Assign Tags. See Select All Endpoints for guidance on selecting all.

  2. Enter a tag key and a value associated with that key. For example, enter group as the key and sales or product_support as the value. Select + Add Tag to bulk assign more than one tag.

  3. Select Preview Changes and then Assign Tags when complete.

Remove a Single Tag

Remove Tag

Remove Tag

Remove a single tag from an endpoint by selecting the X next to the tag name from the Endpoint Details of both the side drawer summary view and the detailed view.

Bulk Remove Tags from Multiple Endpoints

Bulk Remove Tags from Multiple Endpoint

Bulk Remove Tags from Multiple Endpoint

To bulk remove tags from multiple endpoints at once, follow these steps:

  1. From the Endpoint Agents Summary table, select the checkboxes for the desired endpoints, and then select the Actions menu from above the table and choose Remove Tags. See Select All Endpoints for guidance on selecting all.

  2. Enter the tag key you would like to remove from the endpoints. For example, for the group:prod_support tag, enter group. Select + Add Tag Key to bulk remove more than one tag.

  3. Select Preview Changes and then Remove Tags when complete.

Archive and Unarchive Selected Endpoints

Archive an endpoint to remove it from view if you do not expect that endpoint to report to XDR again. Archived endpoints remain archived until you manually unarchive them, even if they begin reporting again. Archiving an endpoint does not affect data ingestion, alerting, or telemetry for that endpoint, which remains subject to your data retention policy.

Tip

Taegis Endpoint Agents can be automatically archived after a set time frame using Auto Archive. For more information, see Agent Groups.

Archive an Endpoint

Archive Agent

Archive Agent

To archive, or hide, endpoints from the Endpoint Agents Summary table, follow these steps:

  1. Filter the table as needed and then select the checkboxes to the left of the endpoints you want to archive. See Select All Endpoints for guidance on selecting all.
  2. Select the Actions menu from above the table and choose Archive.
  3. Upon completion, the selected endpoints are moved to an archived agent status.

Unarchive an Endpoint

Unarchive Agent

Unarchive Agent

To unarchive, or restore, endpoints to the Endpoint Agents Summary table, follow these steps:

  1. Select the Agent Status Options filter and choose Show Archived Agents.
  2. Select the checkboxes to the left of the archived endpoints you want to unarchive. See Select All Endpoints for guidance on selecting all.
  3. Select the Actions menu from above the table and choose Unarchive.
  4. Upon completion, the selected endpoints are restored to an active agent status.

View Archived Endpoints

To view archived endpoints, use the filter menu to Show Archived Agents. Archived endpoints display a label next to the hostname in the side drawer summary view and the detailed view:

Archived Status

Archived Status

Reassign Taegis Agent Group

Note

Group functionality is available only for the Taegis Endpoint Agent. See Agent Groups for more information.

Reassign Group

Reassign Group

To reassign one or more Taegis Endpoint Agents to a new Group, follow these steps:

  1. Filter the table by Group if needed and then select the checkboxes to the left of the endpoints you would like to reassign. See Select All Endpoints for guidance on selecting all.
  2. Select the Actions menu from above the table and choose Reassign Group.
  3. Select the Group you would like to reassign the selected endpoints to from the drop-down menu and then select Reassign.

Note

There is a limit of 50 endpoints that can be reassigned at a time.

Reconnect Taegis Agents

Note

The Reconnect Agents action is available only for Taegis Endpoint Agents that are both Active and Connected.

Reconnect Taegis Agents

Reconnect Taegis Agents

Use the Reconnect Agents action to connect one or more Active and Connected Taegis Endpoint Agents to the registration server to initiate an auto-update if a new Taegis Endpoint Agent version is available. To reconnect agents, follow these steps:

  1. Select the checkboxes to the left of the Taegis Endpoint Agents you would like to reconnect. See Select All Endpoints for guidance on selecting all.
  2. Select the Actions menu from above the table and choose Reconnect.
  3. Enter a reason for the action in the dialog and select Reconnect.

Note

You can also reconnect an individual Taegis Agent from the Actions menu of the endpoint side drawer summary view or detailed view.

Uninstall Taegis Agents

Note

The Uninstall Agents action is available only for supported Taegis Endpoint Agents that are both Active and Connected. Uninstall Agents is supported by all Windows and Linux versions and macOS version 2.0.9 and later. For other uninstall options, see Taegis Endpoint Agent Uninstall.

Uninstall Taegis Agents

Uninstall Taegis Agents

Use the Uninstall action to uninstall one or more Taegis Endpoint Agents from Active and Connected endpoints. Follow these steps:

  1. Select the checkboxes to the left of the Taegis Endpoint Agents you would like to uninstall. See Select All Endpoints for guidance on selecting all.
  2. Select the Actions menu from above the table and choose Uninstall.
  3. Enter a reason for the action in the dialog and select Uninstall.

Note

You can also uninstall an individual Taegis Agent from the Actions menu of the endpoint side drawer summary view or detailed view.

View Endpoint & Agent Details

Select the Hostname entry for an endpoint in the table to open a side drawer summary view of details about the endpoint and its agent.

Agent Side Drawer

Agent Side Drawer

For a detailed view, select the Open in new tab icon from the summary.

Agent Detailed View

Agent Detailed View

Agent Details

The Agent Details section displays information about the agent running on the endpoint, including:

Additional information may be available depending on the agent type.

Endpoint Details

The Endpoint Details section displays information about the endpoint. From this section you can:

Vulnerabilities

For XDR tenants that also subscribe to Secureworks® Taegis™ VDR, the Vulnerabilities section of the detailed view displays vulnerabilities identified by VDR affecting the endpoint, if it has been mapped to an asset in VDR.

To view more details about the listed vulnerabilities, navigate to the Vulnerabilities view of VDR. For more information, see Finding, Filtering, and Sorting Vulnerabilities in the VDR Documentation.

Tip

Add the Vulnerability Column to the Endpoint Agents Summary table for a quick look at the rollup vulnerability score for endpoints.

Alerts

The Alerts section of the detailed view displays alerts generated from the telemetry that endpoint generated and sent to XDR.

Expand or collapse the section by selecting the header, and select an alert from the list to open a side drawer view.

Filter the table and customize the view by selecting a column header menu icon and choosing the filter or column tab. Use the Actions menu directly above the table to take action on all or selected alerts.

Command History

The Command History section of the detailed view displays a list of actions taken for the endpoint, including the user that initiated the action and the reason they supplied for doing so.

Expand or collapse the section by selecting the header, and filter the table and customize the view by selecting a column header menu icon and choosing the filter or column tab.

Red Cloak Endpoint Agent Module Status

For Red Cloak Endpoint Agents only, the Module Status section displays the last time each of a Red Cloak Endpoint Agent ’s modules last reported to XDR. This information can aid in identifying problems with the Red Cloak Endpoint Agent ’s modules.

The status of each module except Mukluk is represented by the following colors, which are updated in XDR every four hours:

Note

The Mukluk module status is represented as GREEN if data has been reported in the last 12 hours, YELLOW if data has not been reported between 12 hours and 30 days, and RED if data has not been reported in over 30 days.

Find further information on the Red Cloak Endpoint Agent modules in the Red Cloak Endpoint Agent Technical Details.

Actions

Endpoint Actions

Endpoint Actions

View and take available actions related to an endpoint by selecting the three dot Actions icon from the side drawer summary view or the Actions menu from the detailed view.

The following actions may be available, depending on the agent type, the endpoint status, your tenant subscriptions, your user role, and any automations you have enabled:

Note

The Uninstall Agents action is available only for supported Taegis Endpoint Agents that are both Active and Connected. Uninstall Agents is supported by all Windows and Linux versions and macOS version 2.0.9 and later. For other uninstall options, see Taegis Endpoint Agent Uninstall.

Isolate and Restore a Host

Important

Taegis Endpoint Agents behind a full VPN tunnel cannot be restored after being isolated, as they cannot reach the Taegis backend. We recommend using a split-tunneling VPN for Taegis Endpoint Agents. Note that this might also be applicable for other third-party EDR agents.

Note

By default, Taegis Endpoint Agents in an isolated state are limited to agent-related traffic only; to allow additional network traffic to isolated Taegis Endpoint Agents within a specified CIDR range, create an Isolation Exception rule.

Isolating an endpoint from network communication (except to XDR) is performed to prevent lateral spreading of threats from an infected host to healthy hosts. Once isolated hosts have the threat removed, they can be reintegrated and regain full network access.

Tip

Response actions such as isolating and restoring an endpoint can also be enabled via playbooks. For information on configuring playbooks to perform these actions, see Playbooks Templates and related Automations documentation.

Follow these steps to isolate or restore a host via the XDR default Actions menu options:

  1. From the XDR left-hand side navigation, select Endpoint Agents → Summary and choose an endpoint from the Endpoint Agents Summary table.
  2. Select the three dot Actions icon from the Endpoint side drawer summary view or the Actions menu from the Endpoint detailed view.
  3. Choose either Isolate Host or Restore Host.
  4. Enter a reason for the action and select either Isolate Host or Restore Host to confirm.


Isolated hosts display a label next to the hostname in the side drawer summary view and the detailed view:

Isolation Status

Isolation Status

Note

Disconnected Taegis Endpoint Agents display an Isolation Pending or Restore Pending label until they reconnect to XDR. For more information, see Taegis™ Endpoint Agent Technical Details.

See the Command History section from the endpoint detailed view for a history of isolate and restore actions for the endpoint.

For more information, see Taegis™ Endpoint Agent Technical Details or Red Cloak™ Endpoint Agent Technical Details.

Share Agent Details

To share agent details with another user within the tenant, select the Copy share link icon for a direct URL from either the side drawer summary view or detailed view.

Copy Link to Share Agent

Copy Link to Share Agent

 

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