The APIs are absolutely the way to go for what you're looking for from an automation perspective. Leveraging the APIs will require programming knowledge as you'll have to build something custom in order to leverage them but that makes sense given that this is a pretty custom request. The Device Group related APIs are very extensive in recent 14.x versions of MobiControl:

Thanks Matt, we've done some basic work with API to retrieve data that doesn't exist in the standard 'canned' reports. 

I figured we'd need a program to loop through all the requests and in the end, I ended up reaching out to colleagues who have implemented something very similar in a seperate MobiControl environment. 

Going through the code now to see how it all works. 

I've been doing some tests in our QA environment and although I can create individual groups through the MobiControl/api/ page, it seems like when modifying the scripts provided here (https://discussions.soti.net/thread/using-powershell-to-make-api-calls/) that the script in unable to request a token. 

The only modification I had to make was to change the https://$MCFQDN/Mobicontrol/api/devicegroups reference to http: as it was throwing an SSL/TLS error. 

Would something like this cause the token request process to fail? We are currently running MobiControl 13.4.0.4899

Answering my own question right now, but regarding the ''The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel' error I was getting when running the PS script, I came across this post. 

https://alexandrebrisebois.wordpress.com/2014/09/05/powershell-invoke-restmethod-the-underlying-connection-was-closed/

Adding [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::ServerCertificateValidationCallback = {$true} at the top of the script allows it to talk to the MC server. 

Now I'm getting a 'The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized' message so I'm working through this right now. 

I would like a template API for call the mobicontrol. Can you send link url for template ? thank you.

The APIs are absolutely the way to go for what you're looking for from an automation perspective. Leveraging the APIs will require programming knowledge as you'll have to build something custom in order to leverage them but that makes sense given that this is a pretty custom request. The Device Group related APIs are very extensive in recent 14.x versions of MobiControl:

Hi Suchapon,

There was another thread on this topic, that I missed originally. The scripts here provide the fundamentals for making the API calls, however you may need to tweak them slightly depending on how your environment is setup. 

https://discussions.soti.net/thread/using-powershell-to-make-api-calls/