Create Question From JSON Readme

Table of contents:

• Help for Create Question From JSON
• Export question id 1 as JSON
• Change name or url_regex in the JSON
• Create a new question from the modified JSON file

Help for Create Question From JSON

• Print the help for create_question_from_json.py
• All scripts in bin/ will supply help if -h is on the command line
• If passing in a parameter with a space or a special character, you need to surround it with quotes properly. On Windows this means double quotes. On Linux/Mac, this means single or double quotes, depending on what kind of character escaping you need.
• If running this script on Linux or Mac, use the python scripts directly as the bin/create_question_from_json.py
• If running this script on Windows, use the batch script in the winbin/create_question_from_json.bat so that python is called correctly.

create_question_from_json.py -h

usage: create_question_from_json.py [-h] [-u USERNAME] [-p PASSWORD]
                                    [--session_id SESSION_ID] [--host HOST]
                                    [--port PORT] [-l LOGLEVEL]
                                    [--debugformat] [--debug_method_locals]
                                    [--record_all_requests]
                                    [--stats_loop_enabled] [--http_auth_retry]
                                    [--http_retry_count HTTP_RETRY_COUNT]
                                    [--pytan_user_config PYTAN_USER_CONFIG]
                                    [--force_server_version FORCE_SERVER_VERSION]
                                    -j JSON_FILE

Create an object of type: question from a JSON file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

Handler Authentication:
  -u USERNAME, --username USERNAME
                        Name of user (default: None)
  -p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
                        Password of user (default: None)
  --session_id SESSION_ID
                        Session ID to authenticate with instead of
                        username/password (default: None)
  --host HOST           Hostname/ip of SOAP Server (default: None)
  --port PORT           Port to use when connecting to SOAP Server (default:
                        443)

Handler Options:
  -l LOGLEVEL, --loglevel LOGLEVEL
                        Logging level to use, increase for more verbosity
                        (default: 0)
  --debugformat         Enable debug format for logging (default: False)
  --debug_method_locals
                        Enable debug logging for each methods local variables
                        (default: False)
  --record_all_requests
                        Record all requests in
                        handler.session.ALL_REQUESTS_RESPONSES (default:
                        False)
  --stats_loop_enabled  Enable the statistics loop (default: False)
  --http_auth_retry     Disable retry on HTTP authentication failures
                        (default: True)
  --http_retry_count HTTP_RETRY_COUNT
                        Retry count for HTTP failures/invalid responses
                        (default: 5)
  --pytan_user_config PYTAN_USER_CONFIG
                        PyTan User Config file to use for PyTan arguments
                        (defaults to: ~/.pytan_config.json) (default: )
  --force_server_version FORCE_SERVER_VERSION
                        Force PyTan to consider the server version as this,
                        instead of relying on the server version derived from
                        the server info page. (default: )

Create Question from JSON Options:
  -j JSON_FILE, --json JSON_FILE
                        JSON file to use for creating the object (default: )

• Validation Test: exitcode

  • Valid: True
  • Messages: Exit Code is 0

• Validation Test: noerror

  • Valid: True
  • Messages: No error texts found in stderr/stdout

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Export question id 1 as JSON

• Get the first question object
• Save the results to a JSON file

bin/get_question.py -u Administrator -p 'Tanium2015!' --host 10.0.1.240 --port 443 --loglevel 1 --id 1 --file "/tmp/out.json" --export_format json

PyTan v2.1.6 Handler for Session to 10.0.1.240:443, Authenticated: True, Platform Version: 6.5.314.4301
Found items:  QuestionList, len: 1
Report file '/tmp/out.json' written with 779 bytes

• Validation Test: exitcode

  • Valid: True
  • Messages: Exit Code is 0

• Validation Test: file_exist_contents

  • Valid: True
  • Messages: File /tmp/out.json exists, content:

{
  "_type": "questions", 
  "question": [
    {
      "_type": "question", 
      "action_tracking_flag": 0, 
      "context_group": {
        "_type": "group", 
        "id": 0
      }, 
...trimmed for brevity...

• Validation Test: noerror
  • Valid: True
  • Messages: No error texts found in stderr/stdout

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Change name or url_regex in the JSON

• Add CMDLINE TEST to name or url_regex in the JSON file

perl -p -i -e 's/^(      "(name|url_regex)": ".*)"/$1 CMDLINE TEST 3074"/gm' /tmp/out.json && cat /tmp/out.json

{
  "_type": "questions", 
  "question": [
    {
      "_type": "question", 
      "action_tracking_flag": 0, 
      "context_group": {
        "_type": "group", 
        "id": 0
      }, 
      "expiration": "2015-09-14T13:48:06", 
      "expire_seconds": 0, 
      "force_computer_id_flag": 0, 
      "hidden_flag": 0, 
      "id": 1, 
      "management_rights_group": {
        "_type": "group", 
        "id": 0
      }, 
      "query_text": "Get number of machines", 
      "saved_question": {
        "_type": "saved_question", 
        "id": 0
      }, 
      "selects": {
        "_type": "selects", 
        "select": []
      }, 
      "skip_lock_flag": 0, 
      "user": {
        "_type": "user", 
        "id": 1, 
        "name": "Administrator"
      }
    }
  ]
}

• Validation Test: exitcode

  • Valid: True
  • Messages: Exit Code is 0

• Validation Test: file_exist

  • Valid: True
  • Messages: File /tmp/out.json exists

• Validation Test: noerror

  • Valid: True
  • Messages: No error texts found in stderr/stdout

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Create a new question from the modified JSON file

bin/create_question_from_json.py -u Administrator -p 'Tanium2015!' --host 10.0.1.240 --port 443 --loglevel 1 -j "/tmp/out.json"

PyTan v2.1.6 Handler for Session to 10.0.1.240:443, Authenticated: True, Platform Version: 6.5.314.4301
Created item: Question, id: 16107, ID: 16107

• Validation Test: exitcode

  • Valid: True
  • Messages: Exit Code is 0

• Validation Test: noerror

  • Valid: True
  • Messages: No error texts found in stderr/stdout

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generated by: build_bin_doc v2.1.0, date: Fri Oct 2 16:06:22 2015 EDT, Contact info: Jim Olsen jim.olsen@tanium.com