Continuing on our exploration of the Automox API, we are going to look at how to view non-compliant hosts. Remember the API interface is protected with a key which can be found in the console.
There are a number of API features to use which can be found here: https://docs.automox.com/api/ . In this example we will go over using the reports/noncompliance API call using Python. Be sure to log in to the console, navigate to Settings, and you’ll find the API Key at the bottom of the page.
The data from the API is in JSON format. In this example we will look at the noncompliance call in the API and convert the output to a CSV or a plain text table. The fields in the noncompliance JSON are:
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{
"total": 0, "low": 0, "medium": 0, "high": 0, "other": 0, "devices": [ { "id": 0, "name": "string", "customName": "string", "serverCreateTime": "2018-06-19T18:47:43.697Z", "lastCheckinTime": "2018-06-19T18:47:43.697Z", "lastRefreshTime": "2018-06-19T18:47:43.697Z", "needsReboot": true, "groupId": 0, "os_family": "string", "policies": [ { "id": 0, "name": "string", "type": "string", "reasonForFail": "string", "policyCreateTime": "2018-06-19T18:47:43.697Z", "severity": "string", "packages": [ { "id": 0, "name": "string", "severity": "string", "packageVersionId": 0, "createTime": "2018-06-19T18:47:43.697Z" } ] } ] } ] } |
In this example, we will only look at out of compliance hosts for the current day. To access the data, we will use Python and the requests package. The simplest example would be to just return all the data to the screen.
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import requests pageText=requests.get("https://console.automox.com/api/reports/noncompliance?api_key=yourKey").json()
print(pageText)
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You may notice that there is just too much data to read. We will focus on just a few fields:
- Name of Host
- Operating system
- Reboot Required
- Missing Packages
The JSON object that is returned is called nonCompliant, each machine is a new item in the dictionary, and each missing package is a new item in the tree. This requires us to do a few nested loops.
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for item in pageText['nonCompliant']['devices']:
missingPackages=None for item2 in item['policies']: for item3 in item2['packages']: if missingPackages == None: missingPackages=item3['name'] else: missingPackages= missingPackages + ",” + item3['name'] print("{} , {} , {}, \"{}\" ".format(item['name'], item['os_family'], item['needsReboot'], missingPackages)) |
This would print out a CSV on the screen of missing patches.
To improve on this, we can use the ArgParse package to supply the API Key on the command line. We can also use PrettyTable to print table on the screen or write to a CSV file.
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
#File: noncomp.py : A script to get non compliant devices from the Automox API #Auth: Joe McManus mcmanus@automox.com #Ver : Version 1.0 2018/06/19 import json import requests from prettytable import PrettyTable import argparse from datetime import datetime parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Automox API Example')
parser.add_argument('--limit', help="Limit results to X", type=int) parser.add_argument('--csv', help="Output as CSV", action="store_true") parser.add_argument('--table', help="Output as table", action="store_true") parser.add_argument('apiKey', help="API Key ", type=str) args=parser.parse_args() baseUrl="https://console.automox.com/api/reports/noncompliance?api_key="
url=baseUrl + args.apiKey + "&startDate=" + datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') print(url) i=0
pageText=requests.get(url).json() if args.csv: filename=datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') + "-noncomp.csv" fh=open(filename, "w+") table=PrettyTable(["Host", "OS", "Reboot Rqd", "packages"]) for item in pageText['nonCompliant']['devices']: missingPackages=None for item2 in item['policies']: for item3 in item2['packages']: if missingPackages == None: missingPackages=item3['name'] else: missingPackages= missingPackages + "\n" + item3['name']
if args.table: table.add_row([item['name'], item['os_family'], item['needsReboot'], missingPackages]) if args.csv: fh.write("{} , {} , {}, \"{}\" ".format(item['name'], item['os_family'], item['needsReboot'], str(missingPackages).replace("\n", ","))) if args.limit:
if i >= args.limit: break i+=1 if args.table: print(table) if args.csv: fh.close() |
Now that you have begun to dive deeper in to the Automox API you can continue to customize the automated features of your patch management. If you have any questions, you can reach us at support@automox.com!
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