Network Adapter Relevance Property

[Seiko1]

Hi All,

I have used the below relevance to fetch Network Adapter Property

(description of it ) of adapters whose (address of it as string != “0.0.0.0”) of network

So,I’m able to get value for all the adapter such as Physical network adapter ,virtual network adapter and as well as juniper network adapter.But here my question is I’m only looking for Physical network adapter.

Can anyone please help me with the relevance expression which will fetch only physical network adapter value.

Your help will be highly appreciated :).

[jgstew]

How does this do?

(friendly name of it, address of it) of adapters whose (address of it as string != "0.0.0.0" AND up of it AND not loopback of it) of network

How about this?

addresses of adapters whose (address of it as string != "0.0.0.0" AND up of it AND not loopback of it AND "en0" = name of it) of network

[Seiko1]

Thanks jgstew for your help.First code which you have given is working perfectly and the second code is fetching null value for all the Endpoints.

[jgstew]

The 2nd one should only work on Linux / OS X. You would have to change the name or find another way to get the primary adapter on Windows.

[Seiko1]

Thanks for your input jgstew I’m getting the physical network adapter for all the Endpoints but can you please help me with the code which will fetch the network adapter model for physical adapter.

[jgstew]

Getting the specific Model of the physical NIC is more complicated and might depend on which OS you are trying to do it on.

There is a devices inspector, also on windows/unix/linux there is SMBIOS and on Apple there is IOReg.

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Yes, any results in a property or analysis can be queried using the BigFix REST API. Everything you are looking for either already exists in a property provided by IBM, or an analysis on BigFix.Me or is one that could be written, or through this method: Anything that cannot be queried natively by BigFix relevance can be accomplished by running something on the command line on a periodic basis, outputting the results to a file, then reading the lines of that file or parts of it using a relevanc…

[Seiko1]

(description of it ) of adapters whose (address of it as string != “0.0.0.0”) of network. Using this code I’m able get physical and virtual adapter model.Can we add some filter in this code which will bring only physical adapter model.

[jgstew]

This has some extra filtering:

descriptions of adapters whose (address of it as string != "0.0.0.0" AND up of it AND not loopback of it) of network

Getting just the physical adapter is not as easy as it might require getting something that is OS specific to help filter the list, unless you can find a property of adapters that definitely signals that it is the physical adapter.

You can see properties of adapters here: https://support.bigfix.com/inspectors/Networking%20Objects_Any.html

[Seiko1]

yes jgstew you are right,getting Physical adapter is quite difficult. Because as per my knowledge when we are installing a physical adapter of BASP then a virtual adapter will also get installed and we can use any of them to configure our IP.So,here we have to exclude the virtual machine which hold IP.