BigFix API v. 2.5

BigFix has an API that is pretty useful. However, to get meaningful data I programed this interpreter. This is very much still in development, with new features to follow.

requirements

• python3
  • BeautifulSoup
  • lxml
  • os
  • sys
  • requests
  • getpass
  • urllib3
• BigFix
  • An account on BigFix that has proper role to query API

Install

Download the program

Make the follolwing Modifcations:

update python3 path
Install requirements
update my_url Variable to be your bigfix agent url

chmod 755 ./bigfix_api.py

2.5 Update

Everything is run from gen_asset_report(rep_type)

allows:

• new = updates everything and gives you entire inventory
• last = nothing is updated runs off last inventory cache file
• current = pulls new inventory list from bigfix and reports on it. History file is not updated
• new_servers = pulls new inventory list from bigfix and compares against history file
• new_servers_hist_upd = pulls new inventory list from bigfix and compares against an updated history file
• decom_servers = pulls Decom from bigfix history file and compares against new inventory file
• decom_servers_hist_upd = pulls Decom from updated bigfix history file and compares against new inventory file
• history= pulls new inventory list from bigfix and compares against an updated history file currently if you run with out a history file this will crash