The divorce of targets and agents

17 August 2023

`zli v. 6.30.2`

New

zli agent. In an effort to create more clarity between the bzero agent and targets, the zli now has a command that allows administrators to manage their organization's agents. As a refresher, the BastionZero agent, bzero, enables multi-root zero trust access to your infrastructure. It is supported on Linux, Windows, and Kubernetes systems. A target is the resource that your users (and you) need access to; this could be an SSH, RDP, Kubernetes, AWS RDS, or other kind of target. This new command comes with a few subcommands and aliases:
- zli agent list: list all agents in an organization (admin only)
- zli agent restart {agent}: restart an agent (admin only)
- zli list-agents: similar to our list-targets command, this command is the equivalent of zli agent list and will list all agents (admin only)
- zli la: alias to list all agents (admin only)

Enhancements

zli list-targets. This command now exclusively returns targets (SSH, RDP, Kubernetes, AWS RDS, etc.) rather than the former mix of targets and agents. Use zli agents to view BastionZero agents
zli logout and zli disconnect. Logout and disconnect have been polished to report only errors if they are encountered during logout or disconnect; otherwise, a success message is shown

Fixes

Windows paths for SSH. Resolved an issue with Windows support where paths used for SSH capabilities were not Windows-native

Web app & backend

New

zli agent. This release of the backend contains the necessary changes to support the introduction of the agent command in the zli

Enhancements

Edit environment name. Environment name can be modifiable after creation. Note that the name must still be unique within an organization

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zli v. 6.30.2

New

zli agent. In an effort to create more clarity between the bzero agent and targets, the zli now has a command that allows administrators to manage their organization's agents. As a refresher, the BastionZero agent, bzero, enables multi-root zero trust access to your infrastructure. It is supported on Linux, Windows, and Kubernetes systems. A target is the resource that your users (and you) need access to; this could be an SSH, RDP, Kubernetes, AWS RDS, or other kind of target. This new command comes with a few subcommands and aliases:

zli agent list: list all agents in an organization (admin only)
zli agent restart {agent}: restart an agent (admin only)
zli list-agents: similar to our list-targets command, this command is the equivalent of zli agent list and will list all agents (admin only)
zli la: alias to list all agents (admin only)

Enhancements

zli list-targets. This command now exclusively returns targets (SSH, RDP, Kubernetes, AWS RDS, etc.) rather than the former mix of targets and agents. Use zli agents to view BastionZero agents

zli logout and zli disconnect. Logout and disconnect have been polished to report only errors if they are encountered during logout or disconnect; otherwise, a success message is shown

Fixes

Windows paths for SSH. Resolved an issue with Windows support where paths used for SSH capabilities were not Windows-native

Web app & backend

New

zli agent. This release of the backend contains the necessary changes to support the introduction of the agent command in the zli

Enhancements

Admin-view for targets API. The supports an admin-specific view of an organization's targets, which is a comprehensive list of all targets within that organization

Edit environment name. Environment name can be modifiable after creation. Note that the name must still be unique within an organization

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