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Pulling Policy Schedules From API

  • March 2, 2020
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MinnesotaJoe

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.

  "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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    MinnesotaJoe
    • MinnesotaJoe
    • Author
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    • March 2, 2020

    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-Automox
    • Rich-Automox
    • Automox Employee
    • March 2, 2020

    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.

    PaulB
    Nic-Automox
    MinnesotaJoe
    MinnesotaJoe
    • MinnesotaJoe
    • Author
    • Novice
    • March 2, 2020

    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.

    Nic-Automox
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