Introducing the Searchable Automox Worklets Catalog

Hey IT heroes. We know you have a ton on your plate, and we understand the struggles of juggling tasks and dealing with the ever-present pressure of too much to do in too little time. But we've got your back.

Introducing the Automox Worklets Catalog, the ultimate resource to make your life easier and give your IT team some serious endpoint management fuel. 

But hold on, we don’t want to put the proverbial cart before the horse. You may be wondering…

Automox Worklets™️ are powerful automation tools that put the reins in your hands. Worklets empower you to easily automate any scriptable action on macOS, Linux, and Windows devices. 

Imagine eliminating soul-crushing, time-consuming manual tasks by simply scripting them away. The power of Worklets lies in the fact that anyone can create and offer them up in our online community. While we do have a team of engineers working away to build an expansive library of these incredible tools; our talented community of customers also bring their fantastic ideas to life in the form of Worklets.

Honestly, the possibilities are endless. Worklets can help you remediate zero-day or unpatched vulnerabilities, enforce device configuration, remove unauthorized apps, install software, and more. Everything can be done at scale and on any device with an internet connection. 

Every Worklet available in the catalog is created, reviewed, and published by our team of experienced systems engineers who cut their teeth building out automation tooling. The team is (or has been) in your shoes – their purpose is to automate tasks they know, firsthand, are painful. Our engineers share a sole motivation: What can we do to help IT teams win back hours in their day?

With Otto AI, your new AI assistant from Automox, put coding and scripting challenges behind you as you patch, configure, and control your endpoints at warp speed. Otto AI is a groundbreaking generative AI endpoint management agent ready to accelerate your in-house expertise. 

Now you’ll have an in-console assistant that can help create custom scripts that you can test and deploy at scale — all while rapidly upskilling your team.

Anything you can script, you can automate with Worklets. For Windows devices, Worklets can be scripted in PowerShell, while BASH takes the lead for Linux and macOS.

Worklets are all about evaluating conditions and taking action. Evaluation tests a condition and returns an exit code based on the result. If the exit code is zero, the evaluation is successful and no remediation action will occur. 

The device is flagged for remediation if the evaluation returns a non-zero exit code. If the Worklet is scheduled, the device will receive the remediation action at the next scheduled time. You can also force the Worklet to run manually, which will trigger remediation, regardless of any previous evaluation exit code.

The remediation code section of Worklets allows you to do things like deploy software, enforce security configuration settings, and fix vulnerabilities fast. Again, when it comes to Worklets, if you can script it, you can automate it.

Worklets can be scheduled to run based on your preferences, whether it's by month, day of the week, or week of the month. This flexibility allows you to run the remediation script on non-compliant devices – at the perfect time – maximizing your team's efficiency.

Worklets are a mechanism to enhance your team's efficiency through simple, powerful automation. With 54% of IT leaders investing in programming and automation skills, the Worklet Catalog is here to reduce training time and monetary investments while still allowing you to meet business objectives seamlessly.

If you’ve felt like there’s never enough time, Automox Worklets are here to give you time back. Think of them as your easy button. To get started, push the button with any (or all) of the three Worklets below.

Here’s just a taste of some of the Worklets available in our catalog:

1. Install Google Chrome (macOS)

This Worklet uses a Bash script to see if Google Chrome is installed on the target device and, if it isn't, downloads it from Google's servers and installs it.

2. Reset Windows Update Settings  (Windows)

With this Worklet, you can streamline Windows updates by resetting the update settings to allow for a smooth and hassle-free update process.

3. Start Rapid7 Insight Agent Service (Windows)

This Worklet makes sure your vulnerability management and incident response agent is up and running properly on your endpoints.

4. Disable root login (Linux)

This Worklet makes sure targeted devices are set up with security best practices to disable remote root login across your Linux environment.

5. Mitigate Black Lotus (Windows)

This Worklet mitigates the BlackLotus vulnerability (CVE-2023-24932) by applying Microsoft's guided revocation steps.