A lot of our clients struggle with permission management. Some of our clients practically want a daily permissions report to see if anything has changed. To make sure that our client can be sure we manage their permissions correctly we always upload the permission sets to our IT-glue documentation system. This way the client can see whenever permissions have changed and look at how the state of the permissions was last week, last month, or even last year.
Today I’ll be showing you how to upload permissions to IT-Glue using the IT-Glue API and the NTFSSecurity module. We’;ll also have a generic non-ITGlue version you can use with whatever documentation system you use.
IT-Glue version
We’ll be using the same base script as with the other chapters. Remember to set at the variables to your environment. The script will gather the permissions of the root folder specified, and all unique permissions of files and folders under that. It will skip over inherited permissions from the root.
The recursive depth is currently set to only look 2 folders deep. This is because our permission system does not allow unique permissions deeper than this. If your process does you should change the variable $RecursiveDepth.
Remember; it will make the flexible asset for you, if it does not yet exist.
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$APIKEy = "APIKEYHERE"
$APIEndpoint = "https://api.eu.itglue.com"
$orgID = "ORGIDHERE"
$FlexAssetName = "ITGLue AutoDoc - File Share v2"
$Description = "a list of unique file share permissions"
$RecursiveDepth = 2
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If(Get-Module -ListAvailable -Name "ITGlueAPI") {Import-module ITGlueAPI} Else { install-module ITGlueAPI -Force; import-module ITGlueAPI}
If(Get-Module -ListAvailable -Name "NTFSSecurity") {Import-module "NTFSSecurity"} Else { install-module "NTFSSecurity" -Force; import-module "NTFSSecurity"}
#Settings IT-Glue logon information
Add-ITGlueBaseURI -base_uri $APIEndpoint
Add-ITGlueAPIKey $APIKEy
#Collect Data
$AllsmbShares = get-smbshare | Where-Object {(@('Remote Admin','Default share','Remote IPC') -notcontains $_.Description)}
foreach($SMBShare in $AllSMBShares){
$Permissions = get-item $SMBShare.path | get-ntfsaccess
$Permissions += get-childitem -Depth $RecursiveDepth -Recurse $SMBShare.path | get-ntfsaccess
$FullAccess = $permissions | where-object {$_.'AccessRights' -eq "FullControl" -AND $_.IsInherited -eq $false -AND $_.'AccessControlType' -ne "Deny"}| Select-Object FullName,Account,AccessRights,AccessControlType | ConvertTo-Html -Fragment | Out-String
$Modify = $permissions | where-object {$_.'AccessRights' -Match "Modify" -AND $_.IsInherited -eq $false -and $_.'AccessControlType' -ne "Deny"}| Select-Object FullName,Account,AccessRights,AccessControlType | ConvertTo-Html -Fragment | Out-String
$ReadOnly = $permissions | where-object {$_.'AccessRights' -Match "Read" -AND $_.IsInherited -eq $false -and $_.'AccessControlType' -ne "Deny"}| Select-Object FullName,Account,AccessRights,AccessControlType | ConvertTo-Html -Fragment | Out-String
$Deny = $permissions | where-object {$_.'AccessControlType' -eq "Deny" -AND $_.IsInherited -eq $false} | Select-Object FullName,Account,AccessRights,AccessControlType | ConvertTo-Html -Fragment | Out-String
if($FullAccess.Length /1kb -gt 64) { $FullAccess = "The table is too long to display. Please see included CSV file."}
if($ReadOnly.Length /1kb -gt 64) { $ReadOnly = "The table is too long to display. Please see included CSV file."}
if($Modify.Length /1kb -gt 64) { $Modify = "The table is too long to display. Please see included CSV file."}
if($Deny.Length /1kb -gt 64) { $Deny = "The table is too long to display. Please see included CSV file."}
$PermCSV = ($Permissions | ConvertTo-Csv -NoTypeInformation -Delimiter ",") -join [Environment]::NewLine
$Bytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($PermCSV)
$Base64CSV =[Convert]::ToBase64String($Bytes)
#Tagging devices
$DeviceAsset = @()
If($TagRelatedDevices -eq $true){
Write-Host "Finding all related resources - Based on computername: $ENV:COMPUTERNAME"
foreach($hostfound in $networkscan | Where-Object { $_.Ping -ne $false}){
$DeviceAsset += (Get-ITGlueConfigurations -page_size "1000" -filter_name $ENV:COMPUTERNAME -organization_id $orgID).data }
}
$FlexAssetBody =
@{
type = 'flexible-assets'
attributes = @{
name = $FlexAssetName
traits = @{
"share-name" = $($smbshare.name)
"share-path" = $($smbshare.path)
"full-control-permissions" = $FullAccess
"read-permissions" = $ReadOnly
"modify-permissions" = $Modify
"deny-permissions" = $Deny
"tagged-devices" = $DeviceAsset.ID
"csv-file" = @{
"content" = $Base64CSV
"file_name" = "Permissions.csv"
}
}
}
}
#Checking if the FlexibleAsset exists. If not, create a new one.
$FilterID = (Get-ITGlueFlexibleAssetTypes -filter_name $FlexAssetName).data
if(!$FilterID){
$NewFlexAssetData =
@{
type = 'flexible-asset-types'
attributes = @{
name = $FlexAssetName
icon = 'sitemap'
description = $description
}
relationships = @{
"flexible-asset-fields" = @{
data = @(
@{
type = "flexible_asset_fields"
attributes = @{
order = 1
name = "Share Name"
kind = "Text"
required = $true
"show-in-list" = $true
"use-for-title" = $true
}
},
@{
type = "flexible_asset_fields"
attributes = @{
order = 2
name = "Share Path"
kind = "Text"
required = $false
"show-in-list" = $true
}
},
@{
type = "flexible_asset_fields"
attributes = @{
order = 3
name = "Full Control Permissions"
kind = "Textbox"
required = $false
"show-in-list" = $false
}
},
@{
type = "flexible_asset_fields"
attributes = @{
order = 4
name = "Modify Permissions"
kind = "Textbox"
required = $false
"show-in-list" = $false
}
},
@{
type = "flexible_asset_fields"
attributes = @{
order = 5
name = "Read permissions"
kind = "Textbox"
required = $false
"show-in-list" = $false
}
},
@{
type = "flexible_asset_fields"
attributes = @{
order = 6
name = "Deny permissions"
kind = "Textbox"
required = $false
"show-in-list" = $false
}
},
@{
type = "flexible_asset_fields"
attributes = @{
order = 7
name = "CSV File"
kind = "Upload"
required = $false
"show-in-list" = $false
}
},
@{
type = "flexible_asset_fields"
attributes = @{
order = 8
name = "Tagged Devices"
kind = "Tag"
"tag-type" = "Configurations"
required = $false
"show-in-list" = $false
}
}
)
}
}
}
New-ITGlueFlexibleAssetTypes -Data $NewFlexAssetData
$FilterID = (Get-ITGlueFlexibleAssetTypes -filter_name $FlexAssetName).data
}
#Upload data to IT-Glue. We try to match the Server name to current computer name.
$ExistingFlexAsset = (Get-ITGlueFlexibleAssets -filter_flexible_asset_type_id $Filterid.id -filter_organization_id $orgID).data | Where-Object {$_.attributes.name -eq $($SMBShare.name)}
#If the Asset does not exist, we edit the body to be in the form of a new asset, if not, we just upload.
if(!$ExistingFlexAsset){
$FlexAssetBody.attributes.add('organization-id', $orgID)
$FlexAssetBody.attributes.add('flexible-asset-type-id', $FilterID.id)
Write-Host "Creating new flexible asset"
New-ITGlueFlexibleAssets -data $FlexAssetBody
} else {
Write-Host "Updating Flexible Asset"
$ExistingFlexAsset = $ExistingFlexAsset[-1]
Set-ITGlueFlexibleAssets -id $ExistingFlexAsset.id -data $FlexAssetBody}
}
The generated file is also uploaded as an attachment to the Flexible asset, so you can always check the CSV and manipulate or re-import it as your see fit. If the HTML table is larger than 64KB it also will not display the HTML table, as the maximum HTML table size for ITGlue is 64KB.
General version
If(Get-Module -ListAvailable -Name "NTFSSecurity") {Import-module "NTFSSecurity"} Else { install-module "NTFSSecurity" -Force; import-module "NTFSSecurity"}
$AllsmbShares = get-smbshare | Where-Object {(@('Remote Admin','Default share','Remote IPC') -notcontains $_.Description)}
foreach($SMBShare in $AllSMBShares){
$Permissions = get-item $SMBShare.path | get-ntfsaccess
$Permissions += get-childitem -Depth $RecursiveDepth -Recurse $SMBShare.path | get-ntfsaccess
$FullAccess = $permissions | where-object {$_.'AccessRights' -eq "FullControl" -AND $_.IsInherited -eq $false -AND $_.'AccessControlType' -ne "Deny"}| Select-Object FullName,Account,AccessRights,AccessControlType | ConvertTo-Html -Fragment | Out-String
$Modify = $permissions | where-object {$_.'AccessRights' -Match "Modify" -AND $_.IsInherited -eq $false -and $_.'AccessControlType' -ne "Deny"}| Select-Object FullName,Account,AccessRights,AccessControlType | ConvertTo-Html -Fragment | Out-String
$ReadOnly = $permissions | where-object {$_.'AccessRights' -Match "Read" -AND $_.IsInherited -eq $false -and $_.'AccessControlType' -ne "Deny"}| Select-Object FullName,Account,AccessRights,AccessControlType | ConvertTo-Html -Fragment | Out-String
$Deny = $permissions | where-object {$_.'AccessControlType' -eq "Deny" -AND $_.IsInherited -eq $false} | Select-Object FullName,Account,AccessRights,AccessControlType | ConvertTo-Html -Fragment | Out-String
$PermCSV = $Permissions | ConvertTo-Csv -Delimiter "," | out-file "C:\Export\ExportOfPermissions.csv" -append
}
And that’s it! As always, Happy PowerShelling!
