PowerShell: A better Dell server hardware audit via iDrac API (Redfish)
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Previously I created the following for retrieving a hardware inventory from an iDrac using the Redfish API.
PowerShell: Dell server hardware audit via iDrac API (Redfish)
Here is a simple hardware audit using the RedFish API that is part of Dell iDrac. This is a phase 1 of what will be a far more useful estate wide audit function that I am working on. The code return a small summary of the data it collects to
It appears there are some issues with this.
- It only works with iDrac v9
- Its over complicated...
So I took another swing at it and came up with the following:
function Get-iDracHardwareInventory
{
param ($Username,$password,$iDracBaseUrl)
$sessionsUrl = "$iDracBaseUrl/redfish/v1/Systems/System.Embedded.1"
$secpasswd = ConvertTo-SecureString $password -AsPlainText -Force
$credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($Username, $secpasswd)
$session = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $sessionsUrl -Credential $credential -Method Get -UseBasicParsing
$HardwareInv = $session.Content | ConvertFrom-Json
return $HardwareInv
}This is doesn't use sessions like the last version and as a result only needs to access the API once making it a lot quicker you need to query a lot of servers. This will also work on older idrac versions (iDrac 7/8/9).