Hardware information SUA

Usage and Config BFI
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Hi,

Is it possible to use relevance to extract hardware information available through ilmt web interface (Reports/hardware inventory) ?

2

You should be able to create an analysis in the BigFix console with whatever (relevance) properties you want, then access the results through WebReports or Inventory or the console or the WebUI.

I haven’t used Inventory recently, so I am unsure of the specifics.

3

@jgstew
Thanks for your answer, i mean here the hardware information in ILMT (e.g. LPAR and virtual Systems information) this information is only available in ILMT web interface, how can i read it into BF console analysis.

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If it is only available in ILMT and it is not available in the BigFix console, then I’m not sure where that data is coming from.

It may be coming from the BigFix console somewhere, but not in an obvious place.

Otherwise, it might be collected during the ILMT scans.

I don’t know the specifics of the data you are looking for, but some of it might be possible to capture with relevance and have available in the BigFix console, but that might not be true in all cases depending on how it is being collected.

I don’t know enough about Inventory to know for sure. What is the data you are looking for? Can you provide example results, even if you redact some of the private info? Do you know how to get the info you are looking for from the command line, or where it is stored in local system files?

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I know what you mean - there is a field in SUA/BFI called “Server Name” that will give you the model type of the hardware and the serial number of that host ie. for AIX- in the IBM Metrics Report via Auditsnapshot… but I cannot find that same field in BigFix Console.