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Using Inventory Variables in Package Deployments

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james.miller

Is there way of using variables from PDQ Inventory in PDQ Deploy?

Most of our machines are hosted in AWS and WOL does not work. I'm writing a powershell script to call the AWS api and start machines based on their ip address.

In order to build this script into packages (start machine > install package > shutdown machine) I need to use the $(Computer:TARGETIPADDRESS) variable from PDQ Inventory in PDQ Deploy.

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    Chris James

    Hello James, currently this is not possible. I have a feature request in to allow for the sharing of System Variables between both applications. Please note that I am not able to comment on if/when said feature would be accepted/implemented.

    It may be a pain, but you could try using Remote Tools in PDQ Inventory to accomplish the deployments to these machines.

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    Stefano Giunchi

    I add to this, I need to use custom variables from Inventory in Deploy.

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    james.miller

    Thanks for the update Chris

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    Roger Navarro

    Any change in status on this request? Would be quite valuable.

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    Colby Bouma

    I just added Sync-PdqVariable to my PowerShell module, PdqStuff. It synchronizes all variables between Deploy and Inventory. Open a PowerShell window as admin, then run the following. You will most likely have to accept a few prompts.

    Set-ExecutionPolicy 'RemoteSigned'
    Install-Module -Name 'PdqStuff'
    Import-Module -Name 'PdqStuff'
    Get-Help Sync-PdqVariable -Full
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