After we scan a file server with FAM, we want to run reports on various folders using values from a CSV. For that given server, we would run a series of reports where only the value of one filter is changing: the Business Resource Full Path for one style of reporting, and the value of the Resource filter for another.
The problem we have is that doing this manually takes some amount of time, from a few seconds to a handful of minutes per report generation. We have hundreds of reports to run per server, and hundreds of servers. We will repeat this reporting every quarter. The hands-on time requirement is substantial. This doesn't make for any sort of exciting job anyone wants to do. This is a perfect situation calling for automation.
It is easy to imagine using a script to issue POST commands to the FAM SIQAPI, similar to what the web page uses when you click on Generate Report.
It would be much easier and, it seems to me, more logical to script interaction with the API than it would be to write as many data sources as we might need.
Is there any documentation on making the necessary calls to SIQAPI? Even less formal notes discussing only generating our two variations of permissions reports would satisfy our need. The benefit is that this is easy to maintain and will conform to all FAM business logic for report generation, even as the product is updated. SQL scripts would require deeper testing and maintenance with every patch or version increment.
Thank you.
