computer_health association

9.2.8 Available from 9.2.8.

Use the computer_health association to retrieve information about health of the computer, such as the status of software scans, or version of the installed BigFix® client, as part of REST API requests.

Association

computer_health

Applicable REST APIs

You can use the computer_health association with the following REST APIs:

Syntax

<URL>?columns[]=computer_health.<column>
For example:
GET api/sam/v2/software_instances?columns[]=computer_health.catalog_version

9.2.10 Schema description

To retrieve the list of all columns that are returned by this association together with their descriptions, use the following request.
GET https://hostname:port/api/sam/schemas/associations/computer_health.json

Available columns

Table 1. Columns with information about computer health
Column Description Type
agent_version Version of the BigFix client that is deployed on the computer. Numeric
catalog_version Version of the IBM-provided software catalog that is available on the computer. Numeric
is_catalog_scan_successful Indicates whether the catalog scan was successful. Boolean
is_idtag_scan_successful Indicates whether the last software tags scan was successful. Boolean
is_low_on_disk_space Indicates whether the computer has less than 100 MB of free disk space. Boolean
is_missing_prereqs Indicates whether any scanner prerequisites are missing on the computer. Boolean
is_out_of_date Indicates whether the latest version of the BigFix client is installed on the computer. For some operating systems, no newer version of the client is available. Boolean
is_out_of_sync Indicates whether the time that is set on the computer is at least an hour from the time that is set on the License Metric Tool server. Boolean
is_package_scan_successful Indicates whether the latest package scan was successful. Boolean
last_scan_attempt Date and time when the last scan was initiated. String
9.2.21 scanner_version Version of the saner that is installed on the computer. String
9.2.21 last_hw_scan_success Date and time when the last capacity scan was successfully run. String