Is there a way to add new components to a baseline components group via the REST API, or is the only way to rebuild the baseline from scratch each time?
Normally you’d download (get) the baseline you want to modify via the REST API and then just add components and post the new baseline against the REST API.
that would work. But then you lose the action history for that baseline because you’re replacing it with a new one with a new fixletID.
The reference (https://bigfix.me/restapi) seems to indicate that post will indeed create a new fixlet even if you provide an existing fixlet ID.
However it seems to indicate that put will indeed update the fixlet/baseline without creating a new one.
Give that a shot
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Yeah, that sounds like it should work. The next challenge I see how to retrieve the fixlet information required like “IncludeInRelevance”, “ActionName”, etc.
<BaselineComponent Name="2718704: Unauthorized Digital Certificates Could Allow Spoofing - Windows Server 2008 SP2" IncludeInRelevance="true" SourceSiteURL="http://sync.bigfix.com/cgi-bin/bfgather/bessecurity" SourceID="271870413" ActionName="Action1">I already have relevance that will turn a fixlet or task into a baseline component. It is apart of the items I have already published to BigFix.Me that automatically generate baselines.
See here:
- https://bigfix.me/relevance/details/3002440 (raw data)
- https://bigfix.me/fixlet/details/6116 (these actually use the above to create the xml)
- https://bigfix.me/fixlet/details/6132
The general idea is you get a set of fixlet/task objects you would like to be baseline components, then the relevance to turn that into the XML representation from there never changes.
See this: