I am looking to create a custom property or possibly some other way that the community might recommend, to return the fixlet creation date. I’m not talking about custom fixlets, but the ones provided by IBM. Is there a way to return the creation/release date of those fixlets?
Basically, when we have applied patches in the past, there have been issues with the fixlet/patch which requires a revised Fixlet to be released from IBM. Does anyone have similar problems? And if so, how do you deal with these?
You could consider using the BigFix Server API to return the fixlet creation date. For eg, For site “Patching Support”, the task “Install packages by using yum”, with ID #18, your API would be https://ServerIP:port #/api/fixlet/external/Patching%20Support/18.
This GET request returns all the fixlet/task information and you could use something like Curl to process the response.
Thanks for that info, very helpful. I am able to run the example you gave me above but when I test it on the Patches for Windows site, it says the resource does not exist. Below is what I am entering, is there a reason the call would not be going through? the ID 612 was just a test, it’s not the one I am actually trying to get info on.
The Patches for Windows site is called “Enterprise Security”. To get a listing of all sites subscribed to your server, perform a GET request - https://ServerIP:port/api/sites.
To get the fixlet info, you could use the query https://ServerIP:port/api/fixlet/external/Enterprise%20Security/219