Bigfix query issue

atshenoy · February 13, 2020, 2:02pm

I am passing this query and not able to get the operating system as an output.

body

<BESAPI xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="BESAPI.xsd">
<ClientQuery Resource="https://host:52311/api/clientquery/2391">
<ApplicabilityRelevance>true</ApplicabilityRelevance>
<QueryText>name of operating system</QueryText>
<Target>
<ComputerID>{computerid}</ComputerID>
</Target>
</ClientQuery>
</BESAPI>

could you please help.

JasonWalker · February 13, 2020, 2:10pm

You can’t just use {computerid} as the Target value. You need an actual, computer id value there (the number).

You could obtain the computer id value to use in one API call, and then use that to build the xml value for a second call to clientquery.

bigfixforum · February 13, 2020, 9:33pm

you can’t just pass the computer name. Name is easy instead of computerID if you 1000’s of computers.