osctrld

The osctrld functionality in osctrl is the bootstrap and maintenance surface used to prepare osquery installations with environment-specific flags, certificates, scripts and packages.

No longer a standalone binary

In current upstream osctrl, osctrld is no longer documented as a standalone binary. Instead, the osctrld functionality lives behind dedicated endpoints exposed by osctrl-tls when osctrld.enabled: true or --enable-osctrld is set.

Those endpoints are intended to help bootstrap and manage osquery installations without having to use the operator frontend or call the API manually. They currently cover:

• Retrieving generated osquery flags,
• Retrieving the environment certificate,
• Verifying the full osquery enrollment payload,
• Generating install and remove scripts for Linux, macOS and Windows,
• Serving expiring quick-enroll / quick-remove links,
• Serving install packages for deb, rpm, pkg and msi.

The endpoints are mounted inside osctrl-tls, use the environment UUID in the path, and validate either the environment secret or the time-bounded secret path generated for the environment.

For the current endpoint layout and request examples, take a look at the usage of osctrld.