watermint toolbox - The multi-purpose utility command-line tool for web services

dropbox team backup device status

Dropbox Backup device status change in the specified period

Evaluates and reports the latest status of Dropbox Backup per device session from activity logs for a specified time period. If there is no activity during the specified period, it is reported as the value no_status_update. Multiple device sessions may be displayed in the following cases

  • If the Dropbox application has been reinstalled.
  • If the Dropbox application has not been unlinked (e.g. you initialized the OS without unlinking the Dropbox application).

in that case, please refer to the report session_info_updated to see the most recent report. This command does not automatically make this determination, since it is possible that there may be a session with the same hostname by coincidence.

Security

watermint toolbox stores credentials into the file system. That is located at below path:

OS Path
Windows %HOMEPATH%\.toolbox\secrets (e.g. C:\Users\bob.toolbox\secrets)
macOS $HOME/.toolbox/secrets (e.g. /Users/bob/.toolbox/secrets)
Linux $HOME/.toolbox/secrets (e.g. /home/bob/.toolbox/secrets)

Please do not share those files to anyone including Dropbox support. You can delete those files after use if you want to remove it. If you want to make sure removal of credentials, revoke application access from setting or the admin console.

Please see below help article for more detail:

  • Dropbox for teams: https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/third-party/business-api#manage

Auth scopes

Description
Dropbox for teams: View your team’s activity log
Dropbox for teams: View your team membership
Dropbox for teams: View your team’s sessions, devices, and apps
Dropbox for teams: View basic information about your team including names, user count, and team settings

Authorization

For the first run, tbx will ask you an authentication with your Dropbox account. Please copy the link and paste it into your browser. Then proceed to authorization. After authorization, Dropbox will show you an authorization code. Please copy that code and paste it to the tbx.


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1. Visit the URL for the auth dialogue:

https://www.dropbox.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&response_type=code&state=xxxxxxxx

2. Click 'Allow' (you might have to login first):
3. Copy the authorisation code:
Enter the authorisation code

Installation

Please download the pre-compiled binary from Latest Release. If you are using Windows, please download the zip file like tbx-xx.x.xxx-win.zip. Then, extract the archive and place tbx.exe on the Desktop folder. The watermint toolbox can run from any path in the system if allowed by the system. But the instruction samples are using the Desktop folder. Please replace the path if you placed the binary other than the Desktop folder.

Usage

This document uses the Desktop folder for command example.

Run

Windows:

cd $HOME\Desktop
.\tbx.exe dropbox team backup device status -start-time "2024-01-01"

macOS, Linux:

$HOME/Desktop/tbx dropbox team backup device status -start-time "2024-01-01"

Note for macOS Catalina 10.15 or above: macOS verifies Developer identity. Currently, tbx is not ready for it. Please select “Cancel” on the first dialogue. Then please proceed “System Preference”, then open “Security & Privacy”, select “General” tab. You may find the message like:

“tbx” was blocked from use because it is not from an identified developer.

And you may find the button “Allow Anyway”. Please hit the button with your risk. At second run, please hit button “Open” on the dialogue.

Options:

Option Description Default
-end-time End date/time of the period to retrieve data for (exclusive). If this is not specified, the current time is used.  
-peer Account alias default
-start-time Start date/time of the period to retrieve data for (inclusive).  

Common options:

Option Description Default
-auth-database Custom path to auth database (default: $HOME/.toolbox/secrets/secrets.db)  
-auto-open Auto open URL or artifact folder false
-bandwidth-kb Bandwidth limit in K bytes per sec for upload/download content. 0 for unlimited 0
-budget-memory Memory budget (limits some feature to reduce memory footprint) normal
-budget-storage Storage budget (limits logs or some feature to reduce storage usage) normal
-concurrency Maximum concurrency for running operation Number of processors
-debug Enable debug mode false
-experiment Enable experimental feature(s).  
-extra Extra parameter file path  
-lang Display language auto
-output Output format (none/text/markdown/json) text
-output-filter Output filter query (jq syntax). The output of the report is filtered using jq syntax. This option is only applied when the report is output as JSON.  
-proxy HTTP/HTTPS proxy (hostname:port). Please specify DIRECT if you want skip setting proxy.  
-quiet Suppress non-error messages, and make output readable by a machine (JSON format) false
-retain-job-data Job data retain policy default
-secure Do not store tokens into a file false
-skip-logging Skip logging in the local storage false
-verbose Show current operations for more detail. false
-workspace Workspace path  

Results

Report file path will be displayed last line of the command line output. If you missed command line output, please see path below. [job-id] will be the date/time of the run. Please see the latest job-id.

OS Path pattern Example
Windows %HOMEPATH%\.toolbox\jobs\[job-id]\reports C:\Users\bob.toolbox\jobs\20190909-115959.597\reports
macOS $HOME/.toolbox/jobs/[job-id]/reports /Users/bob/.toolbox/jobs/20190909-115959.597/reports
Linux $HOME/.toolbox/jobs/[job-id]/reports /home/bob/.toolbox/jobs/20190909-115959.597/reports

Report: devices

Backup feature status of a device The command will generate a report in three different formats. devices.csv, devices.json, and devices.xlsx.

Column Description
actor_user_email User email
actor_user_display_name User display name
session_info_ip_address IP address
session_info_host_name Host name
session_info_updated Last Date/time of the session update
session_info_client_type Client type
session_info_client_version Client version
session_info_platform Platform
timestamp Timestamp of the event
latest_status Latest status of the device

If you run with -budget-memory low option, the command will generate only JSON format report.

In case of a report become large, a report in .xlsx format will be split into several chunks like follows; devices_0000.xlsx, devices_0001.xlsx, devices_0002.xlsx, …

Proxy configuration

The executable automatically detects your proxy configuration from the environment. However, if you got an error or you want to specify explicitly, please add -proxy option, like -proxy hostname:port. Currently, the executable doesn’t support proxies which require authentication.

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