Update Custom Asset Fields with Text from Custom Registry Key via Powershell Script?

Scripting & APIs Scripts
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We’re trying to write a custom value (text) to a custom registry key and then have the Syncro Agent (via Powershell Script) grab that data and write it to a custom asset field

@jeff I saw you and @VerandaTech going back and forth a bit about pushing RegKey Data to Custom Asset Fields in the post below:

REGKEY data to CUSTOM ASSET FIELDS

Wondering if you or anyone else might have some insight on how I might manipulate that script to meet my needs?

Might be super simple, but it’s 3:30am and I think it’s time to “phone a friend” lol

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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To expand on the example, here are a couple of commands to store arbitrary string data in a registry key. This is system wide in HKLM so use an admin account to store the data.

Powershell set the registry key

New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\MSPNAME" -Name "Thing to track" -Value "Tracking Data" -PropertyType String -Force

Command Prompt style set the registry key

reg.exe ADD "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MSPNAME" /f /t REG_SZ /v "Thing to track" /d "Tracking Data"

Powershell to run from Syncro to pull registry item into custom asset field

## Required Syncro library module
Import-Module $env:SyncroModule
## Fetch value from registry
$TrackingData= Get-ItemPropertyValue "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\MSPNAME" -Name "Thing to track"
## Debug - show the value in the script output
Write-Host $TrackingData
## Store the value in a Syncro Asset custom field
Set-Asset-Field -Name "Tracking Data" -Value "$($TrackingData)"
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Hi @jeff

Any ideas how I might be able to place and then grab a piece of custom text etc on a Mac/OSX and push it to a custom asset field.

Was successful using your PS Script to pull regkey data into the dashboard on a Win machine, so thanks a TON for that!

Now I just need to figure out how to do it on a Mac lol

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I have not been able to test this very well. My scripts on the Mac side of Syncro don’t seem to be working.

#!/bin/bash
## Store the date in a text file
date > /tmp/test.txt
## Append some arbitrary text to the file starting with a line break
echo "\nScript ran successfully" >> /tmp/test.txt
## Read the text file into a variable called myvar
myvar=`cat /tmp/test.txt`
## Store the variable into a Syncro custom asset field called "Tracking Data" 
syncro set-asset-field --name="Tracking Data" --value=$myvar
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@jeff This might sound like a dumb question, but here goes haha

If the Windows method uses Powershell, what exactly do you call what’s being to push it to the dashboard in OSX?

Not Powershell, right?

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bash script

See the #!/bin/bash on the first line. That determines which command interpreter is used to process the script.