iLORestAPI

Basic PowerShell construct for interacting with HP iLO via the RestAPI

Synopsis

Collection of functions that can be leveraged to establish session connection and interact with HP iLO RestAPI using PowerShell

Description

• New-HpSession
  • Creates an ILO session and returns the session details
• Remove-HpSession
  • Closes an existing ILO session
• Get-HPSetting
  • Gets settings from the HP BIOS using the ILO API
• Test-Call
  • Testing function only for interacting with various iLO API URI's
• Set-HPBIOSSettings
  • Makes changes to the BIOS that are specified in the JSON payload

Prerequisites

• HP Gen9 Server with iLO capability

How to run

1. Establish an iLO session

$session = New-HpSession -ip $ip -username $username -password $password ```

• Note: If your workstation isn't configured to trust the iLO cert the New-HpSession will prompt you if you wish to temporarily ignore the iLO cert warning

2. Interact with the session

Get-HPSetting -Session $session -Config "Boot" ```

• This will retrieve the pending BIOS settings

Get-HPSetting -Session $session -Config "Running" ```

• This will retrieve the current BIOS settings

Test-Call -IP $ip -Session $session ```

• This will retrieve information for the non-commented URI. This test function contains several URI examples so you can experiment with retrieving info from each one by commenting out and un-commenting different addresses

Set-HPBIOSSettings -IP $ip -Json $json -Session $session ```

• This will send the specified JSON payload and make real changes to the server based on options specified in the JSON payload

3. Remove the iLO session

Remove-HpSession -Session $Session ```

Contributors

Authors: Jake Morrison

http://techthoughts.info

Notes

http://techthoughts.info/ilo-restful-api-powershell