REST get action complete time

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(imported topic written by RobG1)

Using the BES REST API interface, I’m trying to get the time an action completed. This site
https://support.bigfix.com/inspectors/Action%20Objects_Any.html
shows that there is a property
"complete time of
". I’m trying to figure out how to use this.

Using this query, /api/query?relevance=(names of it, ids of it, state of it, status of result of it, detailed status of result of it ) of bes actions whose (id of it = 13987). I can get all the expected values for action 13987. If I add “complete time of it” to the list of items I’m requesting, it fails with the error message, “The operator “complete time” is not defined.”

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

Rob

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(imported comment written by gearoid)

There’s a difference between
https://support.bigfix.com/inspectors/Action%20Objects_Any.html
and
https://support.bigfix.com/inspectors/Session%20Objects_Any.html#bes%20action
.

Complete time is not a property of .

bes action is a Session object - available from the server via the API.

action is a client inspector - available on the client and not in the session.

Have a look here
http://support.bigfix.com/cgi-bin/inspectorsearch/inspector_search.cgi
and search for type:Action and use the Session and Client tickboxes to see what’s available where.

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I can think of a really cheesy hacky way to do this… I think these action inspectors only get evaluated during an action runtime.

This older forum post shows an example of how to get these inspectors to work:

Action parameters in Actionscript

It’s possible if you dump the results of that into a text file in a known location you can have an analysis pick that up later and then you can get those results through session relevance.

I’ll try thinking of a better way… since this solution seems really unsatisfactory…

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It sounds like the info you’re looking for is the time each client (or one client) finished running the specific action. This would actually be a property of an action result, but is not currently available via session relevance. You can see the action result data that is available today using the following query:

properties whose (it as string contains "action result")

The only way to see this data is via Show Action Info in the right-click context menu in the console. Thus the complex workaround dex described above.