Is anyone programatically accessing shavlik to kick off scans or otherwise manipulate the scheduler? We are working on automating our patching process to interface with our CMDB and ticketing system and are having trouble finding any reference material about manipulating the scheduler or extracting schedule information from the protect db. Is anyone doing this?
We have the scan part down pretty well - we export from our cmdb to txt files which shavlik uses to scan, but we would like more control of the actual depoloyment process. Our CMDB is the source for truth on which maintenance window each server is patched in (many hundreds of servers). We are basically looking for a way to control the deployment phase of the process externally. The only command line, powershell, api, etc i've found documented is just the scheduler service command line utility, which i take to primarily be intended to be run from the client side.
Any help would be appreciated.