Create new analysis to retrieve Content from a file

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Hi Team!

Pretty new to BigFix so be kind.

We have created a task that will get information for all clients on a temporary folder on their system drive folder (C:\temp" usually).

These are text files (one per client), though we can format them as CSV also if needed.

We want to retrieve the contents for ALL the files on ALL the clients and join them onto an unified report.

Example file content:

Hostname = server1
DNS1 = 8.8.8.8
DNS2 = 9.9.9.9
BIOSversion = 25.3

So the idea is to have a single report with all that fields for all clients, csv/excel style:

Hostname-----DNS1-----DNS2----BIOSversion
server1--------8.8.8.8-----9.9.9.9----25.3
server2--------8.8.8.8-----9.9.9.9----25.5
server3--------8.8.8.8-----9.9.9.9----21.6

etc

Can this be achieved with an analysis job?.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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You have a couple options. Yes, you could create an analysis for each property in your local file

example DNS1 property:

following text of first "=" of lines whose (it starts with "DNS1") of file <full path to file>

But also those values you have could just be created as analysis properties to pull the values via BigFix Client inspectors and not deal with local files.

Example: BIOS How to find the BIOS Version