BigFix Inventory Rest API assistance

Reporting
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Does anyone know if it’s possible to export the report data from a Saved report from BigFix Inventory?

I originally misread the documentation that was referencing Exporting saved Report views to mean the report data itself but that is just to export it from one BigFix Inventory environment into another one. I can get that to work but it wasn’t want I need to do.

I am needing to export the data from the saved report itself to a CSV but it looks like I might have to create a custom query like this:

URL?criteria={“and”:[[“first_seen”,“last”,“P7D”]]}

Is that accurate or is it possible to save a report then export that saved report via API?

2

The report can be scheduled to be exported as CSV or PDF. To extract the same content via API, the API URL can be constructed with the necessary columns and filters can be defined in the API URL, as long as the associations are available between different API resources.

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I only have the option to schedule an export of a CSV as an e-mail. Is there another way to do it with scheduling that would output it to a flat file on the server? I know there is a way with Web reports but i’m not aware of a way with Inventory.

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As far as I know at this time either CSV/PDF export to an email or API export that can be saved to a file are the only options. Also, the API export will be in JSON format.

I will reach out to our BFI team for feedback. In the mean while please raise this as en enhancement request in the HCL Ideas portal. HCL BigFix Ideas Portal (hcltechsw.com)

5

Actually there is already an idea exists for this. If you can please vote for it to increase priority - Scheduled CSV report - Save on server local | HCL BigFix Ideas Portal (hcltechsw.com)

6

Yeah there is apparently another one as well. I upvoted both of them.

Inventory Reports Scheduled Export Option to | HCL BigFix Ideas Portal