Purpose of Knowledge Article:
This is a guide to check if CrowdStrike is running correctly on your system.
Resolution:
- Using CrowdStrike Falcon Client v6.x or higher
- In the terminal, run sudo/Applications/Falcon.app/Contents/Resources/falconctl stats
- The result should show at the beginning:
Host: ts01-laggar-gcw.cloudsink.net
Port: 443
State: connected
- macOS 10.15 (Catalina)
- In the terminal run kextstat | grep crowd
- The result should show “com.crowdstrike.sensor”, this indicates extension is working correctly
- macOS 11 and later
- In the terminal, run systemextensionsctl list
- The result should look like this:
1 extension(s)
--- com.apple.system_extension.endpoint_security
enabled active teamID bundleID (version) name [state]
* * X9E956P446 com.crowdstrike.falcon.Agent (5.38/119.57) Agent [activated enabled]
- Open up a Command Prompt
- Run the command sc query csagentNote: you may need to run the Command prompt as an administrator
- Ensure the result shows “STATE” is “RUNNING”