Creator iLO - HewlettPackard/POSH-HPEOneView GitHub Wiki

Overview

Creator-iLO.ps1 is a PowerShell script used to configure iLO settings of servers from OneView. The script reads definition of attributes from CSV files. List of iLO settings includes:

  • iLO Accounts

The script leverages the OneView REST API to connect to the iLO thru a SSO session. Doing that, you don't need to provide specific credentials for each iLO. The general flow of each operation is as follow:

  • Get the iLO settings from CSV
  • Get the server hardware name from the CSV. Note that the name must match names defined in OneView ( Server Hardware tab)
  • Query Oneview to collect the server URI resource
  • Append the uri with /remoteConsoleURL - Send a HPOV request to this new uri.
  • From the ouput of previous call, collect IP address of iLO and session key.
  • Use session key and call appropriate iLO Web Services using HPREST CmdLets library

Pre-requisites

  • OneView appliance 1.2 / 2.0
  • OneView PowerShell library v1.20
  • Windows PowerShell 3.0
  • HPRESTCmdlets
  • Microsoft Excel

Instructions

  • Download the Creator-iLO.zip file.
  • On your Windows machine, create a folder, for example C:\OneView
  • Unzip Creator-iLO.zip in the folder
  • Copy the file HPRESTCmdlets.psm1 to C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\HPRESTCmdlets\1.0.0.3\HPRESTCmdlets.psm1
  • Open a PowerShell command window with the Administrator privilege.
  • if necessary, run the command : Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
  • Go to the folder C:\OneView\CSV
  • Open the Excel file and review the different tabs.The Excel file contains all definitions for various attributes. Each attribute and possible values are contained in tabs in Excel

  • Modify values in each tab to match with your environment

  • Save the Excel file.

  • Generate corresponding CSV files using the script below:

        C:\OneView\ExportExceltoCSV.ps1 -ExcelFile C:\OneView\iLOSettings.xlsx

Script in Action!

Note 1: Replace the default values with values defined in your appliance:

  • IP address of the OV appliance
  • Username and password of the OV administrator

Note 2:

  • Each operation can be executed independently. If you don't want to create a given resource, you can simply skip the operation.

Create iLO accounts

 C:\OneView\Creator-iLO.ps1 -iLOAccountCSV c:\Oneview\csv\iLOAccount.csv -OVApplianceIP 10.254.1.39 -OVAdminName administrator -OVAdminPassword P@ssword1 -OneViewModule HPOneView.120

[Download Script Source] (https://github.com/HewlettPackard/POSH-HPOneView/wiki/Examples/Creator_iLO.zip)