Use API to Pull Software Inventory for Every Computer in an Organization

Using the standard API call for software packages installed will just give you software installed on a single device referenced by the server ID#. This script will give you software packages installed on every device in an organization referenced by the computer names. By altering the script you can add additional fields - but make sure the Set-Content line reflects all of the fields you add to the Select-Object part of the last line of the script. You’ll also want the Set-Content line to have the fields in the same order as the Select-Object.

Available fields can be found here from the Response tab:

https://developer.automox.com/openapi/axconsole/operation/getDevicePackages/

You can also modify it to do things like not show Windows updates & hotfixes by altering the Where-Object part of the last line of the script. For example:

Where-Object {$.installed -EQ $true -and $.repo -notlike “Windows*”}

You’ll need to set the following before running the script:

$apiKey = 'YOUR_API_KEY' - in your console, go to Settings->API and select the API key. Note that the API key is per admin user, so you and another admin in your console will have different API keys.

$orgID = 'YOUR_ORG_ID' - put in your Org ID which can be found by looking at the URL on the dashboard and selecting the value after the “?o=”: [https://console.automox.com/dashboard?o=1234]. In this example the Org ID is 1234.

You can also modify $filepath if you want to change the file name or save it in a different location. Keep in mind the script will overwrite a previously generated file if it exists.

# Set these -----------------



$apiKey = 'YOUR_API_KEY'

$orgID = 'YOUR_ORG_ID'

$filepath = 'C:\Temp\SoftwareInventory.csv'



# ---------------------------



$page = 0

$limit = 500

$servers = @()



Set-Content $filepath -Value "Computer,display_name,version"



$apiInstance = 'https://console.automox.com/api/'

$apiTable = 'servers'



while($true) {



    $orgAndKey = "?o=$orgID&api_key=$apiKey&l=$limit&p=$page"



    # Put components together

    $uri = $apiInstance + $apiTable + $orgAndKey



    $resp = (Invoke-WebRequest -Method GET -Uri $uri -UseBasicParsing).Content | ConvertFrom-Json | Select-Object results



    $servers += $resp.results

    $page += 1



    if($resp.results.count -lt $limit) {

        break

    }

}



$servers = $servers | Sort-Object name



# Check each server for software

foreach ($server in $servers) {



    $serverID = $server.id

    $serverName = $server.name



    Write-Output $serverName



    $orgAndKey = "/$serverID/packages?o=$orgID"



    # Put components together

    $getURI = $apiInstance + $apiTable + $orgAndKey



    $headers = @{ "Authorization" = "Bearer $apiKey" }

    $response = (Invoke-WebRequest -Method Get -Uri $getURI -Headers $headers).Content | ConvertFrom-Json



    $response | Where-Object {$_.installed -EQ $true} `

              | Select-Object @{label=”Computer”; Expression= {"$serverName"}},Display_Name,Version `

              | Sort-Object Display_Name | Export-Csv -Path $filepath -NoTypeInformation -Append -Force



}