Using the API to take baseline

[CPArk]

Hello experts, I'm wondering if anybody has previously used the API to poll all gateways for: listening ports, currently running applications, and existing users. We have an in-house tool that was written before I joined the team that uses SSH to connect to each gateway and retrieve this information, then post it to a web frontend. We use the web frontend to acknowledge the baseline, and then any changes that happen after the baseline is created. I was just wondering if there may be a way to do this more cleanly using the API.

[PhoneBoy · Accepted solution]

The REST APIs are largely around configuration, not monitoring.
run-script (available in the Management and/or Gaia API) is a possibility to invoke this monitoring, which may not be any better than doing it over SSH.