Rest API - Action start & end time

[JasonWalker]

The link I posted was REST API, contacting the BES Server and retrieving that information on the action status.

@leewei

https://localhost:52311/api/action/399/status

<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8”?>
<BESAPI xmlns:xsi=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance” xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=“BESAPI.xsd”>
<ActionResults Resource=“https://localhost:52311/api/action/399/status”>
<ActionID>399</ActionID>
<Status>Expired</Status>
<DateIssued>Mon, 04 May 2015 01:09:51 +0000</DateIssued>
<Computer ID=“11577043” Name=“TINTIN”>
<Status>The action executed successfully.</Status>
<State IsError=“0”>3</State>
<ExitCode>0</ExitCode>
<ApplyCount>1</ApplyCount>
<RetryCount>1</RetryCount>
<LineNumber>42</LineNumber>
<StartTime>Mon, 04 May 2015 01:11:16 +0000</StartTime>
<EndTime>Mon, 04 May 2015 01:11:57 +0000</EndTime>
</Computer>
</ActionResults>
</BESAPI>

Replace https://localhost:52311 with your BES Server, and action/399/status with one of your action IDs.

This sample result shows that Action 399 is expired, was issued on May 4 2015 at 1:09:51, and that on computer id “TINTIN” it completed with exit code 0, running from May 4 2015 from 1:11:16 until 1:11:57.
I did a check on one of my own actions, and retrieved similar status from each reported client.

And yes, you can definitely query REST via PowerShell, have a look at https://developer.bigfix.com