Curl to Invoke-WebRequest

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@monica
I am not great at powershell myself, but I did find this powershell example from bigfix.me. It shows Invoke-WebRequest as well as authentication for BigFix server.

http://files.bigfix.me/RestAPI_PowerShell_Example.zip

BigFix Inventory is a little different, so you might need to fiddle with the authentication method a bit to get it running (token=tokenxxxxxxxxxxx in your URL above)

There is another good thread on powershell and BigFix API by @MDMike here:

Easily work with BigFix APIs in PowerShell

For those who were not in attendance at the BigFix Federal User Group yesterday, I wanted to share a portion of one of the presentations. If you have ever wished for a way to work with BigFix in a simple PowerShell-native way, have a look at the BigFix PowerShell Module. Check it out at https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/BigFix or from within PowerShell… PS> Install-Module -Name BigFix The initial (version 1.0) release is capable of working with the SOAP API (Web Reports) to enable …

It is also not specific to the BigFix Inventory API, but should give you some good starting points.

If you get stuck, posting your work so far might encourage a wider response from our forum members.