API Reference Guide

This guide describes the various APIs, including server, client, dashboard, and Web Reports, that you can use to control all aspects of the IBM BigFix engine from your own scripts.

IBM BigFix has extensibility built-in to allow you to create content directly from the console in the form of custom Fixlets and tasks. There are times, however, when you need direct programmatic access to the relevance engine at the core of IBM BigFix. IBM BigFix therefore makes available a set of application programming interfaces (APIs).

This guide describes the various APIs, including server, client, dashboard, and Web Reports, that you can use to control all aspects of the IBM BigFix engine from your own scripts.

This guide describes the API available to IBM BigFix Version 9.2.