This is the second in a series of articles giving extended example of how to use the RestAPI. This article will demonstrate how to generate a report equivalent to the Version 3 "OutputApplications" view using PowerShell. For a shorter example that returns a simpler dataset, you can see the article Use RestAPI and PHP to generate a list of Applications.
You can download the latest version of the file: OutputApplications-v1.ps1, and simply customise the $user, $pass and $sonar values and it should run in your environment
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Build the CSV file header row
PowerShell has a number of built in libraries for handling output to various file formats. For this example we will be saving the results in a CSV file that can be viewed directly in EXCEL or imported into other databases.
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# Build the CSV File header row $csv = @() $row = New-Object System.Object $row | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "Hostname" -Value $null $row | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "FQDN" -Value $null $row | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "SoftwareName" -Value $null $row | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "SoftwareVersion" -Value $null $row | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "SoftwareVendor" -Value $null $row | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "SoftwareEdition" -Value $null $row | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "InstanceIdentifier" -Value $null $row | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "ClusterInformation" -Value $null $row | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "UserCount" -Value $null $row | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "LastScanDate" -Value $null $row | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "Location" -Value $null $row | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "Language" -Value $null $row | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "ApplicationID" -Value $null $row | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "DeviceID" -Value $null $row | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "DNSHostname" -Value $null $row | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "DNSFQDN" -Value $null $row | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "Evidence" -Value $null |
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