Have you ever needed to analyze MBSA files using Python? Well, you can stop cramming now because Azmath just shared the answer to your problem with this nice Python script!
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#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Name: MBSA parser
# Author: Azmath
# Created: 11/07/2012
# Copyright: (c) 2012
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
from xml.etree import ElementTree
with open('test.mbsa', 'rt') as f:
tree = ElementTree.parse(f)
print "servername" + "|"+"domainname" +"|"+"scandate"+"|"+"id" +"|"+ "severity" +"|"+ "Patchtype" + "|"+"Description"
for node in tree.iter('SecScan'):
name = node.attrib.get('Machine')
domain = node.attrib.get('Domain')
scandate = node.attrib.get('LDate')
if name and domain:
print ' %s :: %s' % (name, domain)
else:
print name
for node in tree.iter('UpdateData'):
id = node.attrib.get('ID')
if id:
isinstalled = node.attrib.get('IsInstalled')
if isinstalled == 'false':
bid = node.attrib.get('BulletinID')
if bid:
bulletinid = bid
else:
bulletinid = "None"
idd = node.attrib.get('ID')
#print "Patch id = " +idd
severity = node.attrib.get('Severity')
#print "Severity = "+severity
dtype = node.attrib.get ('Type')
#print "Patch type:" + dtype
for p in node.getiterator('Title'):
desc = p.text
print name + "|"+domain +"|"+scandate+"|"+idd +"|"+ severity +"|"+ dtype + "|"+desc
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