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Pulling Policy Schedules From API

MinnesotaJoe
March 2, 2020 at 7:02 pm UTC

I am looking at building out some automation in presenting patching schedules and alerting the team that an upcoming patching window is approaching.

In the API I know I get get a policies settings and when I look at what is presented, it isn’t something easily understandable.

4 lines
  "schedule_days": 64,
  "schedule_weeks_of_month": 4,
  "schedule_months": 8190,
  "schedule_time": "02:00",

That info somehow translates to every month, on the 2nd Saturday at 2AM. Is there a way of understanding/translating this to be able to actually read the policy schedule?

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MinnesotaJoeMarch 2, 2020
#1

In doing some digging I found the following.

  • Monday = 2
  • Tuesday = 4
  • Wednesday = 8
  • Thursday = 16
  • Friday = 32
  • Saturday = 64
  • Sunday = 128

So I am guessing schedule_weeks_of_month work the same way. Week 1 is 2, Week 2 is 4 and so on. Figuring out the math on how to tell if say Monday and Friday are picked will take some doing.

Rich-AutomoxMarch 2, 2020
#2

Hey Joe, you’re on the right track here. There’s some more explanation on how it works here

https://docs.automox.com/api/policies/create-a-new-policy#note-schedules

It is essentially a binary representation of the day of week, or week of month, or month of year converted to decimal.

MinnesotaJoeMarch 2, 2020
#3

Rich,
Thanks that makes it so much easier. I was looking at the policy part in the API doc, didn’t think to look at creating a new policy to get the info.

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