A customer would like to compare two selected computers to see if the software installed on each is identical. I do not see anything obvious in either the BigFix Inventory application or in the console for such comparisons. Has anyone here ever created something for this or similar purpose? Report maybe? Custom dashboard? Any advice on approach or level of effort to create such a thing?
What is the ultimate requirement - is this a one-time thing or do they want some ability to plug in any two computer names and run a comparison in an automated fashion?
Filtering the Software Installations report by computer names, and exporting to CSV, would allow you to do the comparison in Excel. Quick and easy, but manual.
Ideally I’d like to see an option like is found on many online shopping sites in the Inventory application. Click check boxes to select two or more computers, and then click a “Compare” button to display them, one column per computer, installed software listed alphabetically. We are currently doing the export to CSV process like you describe. It works but isn’t very “modern”.
I can see the benefit of something like this. Perhaps you could open an RFE with IBM.
Hi,
Check if that will help you.
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS8JFY_9.2.0/com.ibm.lmt.doc/Inventory/integration/r_get_computer_systems.html
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS8JFY_9.2.0/com.ibm.lmt.doc/Inventory/integration/c_rest_api_license.html
You may want to install jsonview addon to firefox while using the API.
example:
https://<lmt.ip>/api/sam/software_instances
https://<lmt.ip>//api/sam/computer_systems
https://<lmt.ip>//api/sam/computer_systems?criteria={ “and”: [[“os”, “contains”, “lin”]]}
Regards,
Andrzej