Tanium Custom Sensors

Tanium Sensors are how we pull data back about Endpoints.

They can be written with VBS, PowerShell or Python.

Python works on both Windows, Linux, and Mac so it is the preferred method of writing Custom Sensors.

Links

• Tanium sensor and Python development environment - Tanium Discussion Boards
• Go-Tanium Tech Talks | Episode 21: "KISS: Keep It Simple Sensor"

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Python Executable path : C:\Program Files (x86)\Tanium\Tanium Client\TPython312\TPython.bat

Python Executables : ``C:\Program Files (x86)\Tanium\Tanium Client\python312``

Current release of Python used in Tanium : 3.1.2

 "exec" "env" "TANIUM_SENSOR=1" "'pwd'/'if [ -f TPython ]; then echo TPython/TPython; else echo python27/python; fi'" "$0" "$@"
 inport tanium
 import tanium.host
 
 SENSOR_DELIMITER = '|'
 
 def do_stuff():
 	comp_name = tanium.host.get_hostname()
 	answer = "{hello}{sep}{name}.format(hello="Hello", sep=SENSOR_DELIMETER, name=comp_name)
 	tanium.results.add(answer)
 	
 try:
 	do_stuff()
 except Exception as e:
 	tanium.results.add("Error executing sensor: {}".format(e))