If not created already, create an instance of Rest or Redfish Object using the RestObject or RedfishObject class respectively. The class constructor takes iLO hostname/ ip address, iLO login username and password as arguments. The class also initializes a login session, gets systems resources and message registries.

Rest Object creation:

REST_OBJ = RestObject(iLO_host, login_account, login_password)

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Redfish Object creation:

REDFISH_OBJ = RedfishObject(iLO_host, login_account, login_password)

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The method ex9_find_ilo_mac_address takes an instance of rest object (or redfish object if using Redfish API) as argument.

def ex9_find_ilo_mac_address(restobj):

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Find and get the system resource for manager.

instances = restobj.search_for_type("Manager.")

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Send a HTTP GET request to the manager URI(s).

for instance in instances:
       tmp = restobj.rest_get(instance["href"])

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Ethernet interfaces URI link found from the response body is used for another GET request.

response = restobj.rest_get(tmp.dict["links"]["EthernetNICs"]["href"])

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Check the response for Mac addresses, if found print it.

for item in response.dict["Items"]:
         if "MacAddress" not in item:
             sys.stderr.write("\tNIC resource does not contain " \
                                                 "'MacAddress' property\n")
         else:
             sys.stdout.write("\t" + item["Name"] + " = " + \
                                          item["MacAddress"] + "\t(" + \
                                          item["Status"]["State"] + ")\n")

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