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Nice little trick when needing to match against a number of devices

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Michael_Baker
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2 years ago
We have many situations where we need to address a number of devices based on certain properties so we made a small function take you choice of language hit up the API you get a list of devices back ...
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2 years ago

It took me a while to figure out what you’re doing. You are posting to /functions and the response contains the list of devices that match. You do this so that you can target a list of devices using an AppliesTo expression rather than a filter. 

You can accomplish the same thing without doing an additional API call and not have to use an unsupported endpoint by using advanced filtering.

Much easier than using filters when you have multiple teams… ./do-thing.py -f ‘getPropValue(“….”) && getPropValue(“wmi.user”) =~ “” && getPropValue(“..”) && (thing | that)” 

Much easier than writing advanced filters ;) especially when that output is then used in opther monkey patched calls..