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(imported topic written by NelsonEW91)

Good morning,

I am attempting to use SOAP to pull some data from BigFix into another application and am curious of two things:

  1. We have figured out (using other posts on the forum) how to use relevance language to pull results through SOAP. Questions, can we have it just pull the results of an analysis instead of having the application include the relevance language internally?

  2. Is there a place to look to find a timestamp of the last time time a specific analysis was answered by a PC?

Any help you can give would be greatly apprciated. Thank you.

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

The SOAP interface works only with relevance, so to use it you will have to send in a relevance expression at some point.

However we have an “BFExtractToCSV” utility that helps make it easier to pull back info for the most common types of expressions, like all info about an analysis. YOu can get it here: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/BigFix%20SOAP%20API

For your second question, the agents “last report time” property reports when a computer sent in updates about its state, however we do not track when a specific analysis last updated a specific property.

-Zak