Always "No deployed agents" even when multiple agents appear in Logs & Operations

[bfrisbie-wiz]

Describe the bug I'm able to deploy agents, but the server's /agents page always shows No deployed agents for the blue user even when I can see there are active agents from Both the server's logs, and when running Operations.

I'm running Caldera 5.0.0, and posted about this problem in Slack here.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Do All of the following as the blue user
2. Install Caldera server and run with python3 server.py --build --log DEBUG
3. Install Caldera agents (Sandcat and Ragdoll) on 3 VMs
4. Check Caldera server logs: Observe Incoming HTTP beacons from agents
5. Check server's /agents page and see no agents

Expected behavior After agents are deployed, they should appear on the server's /agents page.

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

Here's info about the OS the Caldera server is running on:

$ uname -a
Linux ip-172-26-2-58 6.1.0-22-cloud-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.94-1 (2024-06-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[bfrisbie-wiz]

Louis Hackländer-Jansen was able to replicate this problem. The root of the problem is that No agents deployed Always seems appear for the blue user, even if (as in my case) Everything was done with the blue user, including installing the agents.

[uruwhy]

What command did you use to run the agents? Are they in the blue group?

[bfrisbie-wiz]

@uruwhy I don't recall as this was > 6 months ago, other than I used the commands listed in the Caldera docs. I was logging in as the red user.

At the time I encountered this problem (and maybe still the case), the documentation did not indicate the blue user must be used to view agents.