CIM Session on DELL iDRac
Hi,
During my last techdays sessions about PowerShell remoting, i was speaking about CIM Sessions on third party vendors. Here is an example to gather CIM datas from an DELL iDRac.
Since the lastest versions of iDRac, WSMan & DMTF standards are included, so indeed we can play with PowerShell 3+ with it through CIM Sessions.
First of all, you’ll have to read peacefully the CIM library profile from DELL site here. Now, let’s PowerShellize it !
# Store iDRac credentials $Credentials = Get-Credential # iDRac Server HostName $iDRacServer = "server_idrac"
Once thing here, is that i know my SSL Certificate is not signed and iDRac must receive UTF8 encoded chars. So we need to use New-CIMSessionOption to configure those bypasses/forces of parameters.
# Configure CIM Session Options
$CIMSessionOption = New-CimSessionOption -SkipCACheck -SkipCNCheck `
-SkipRevocationCheck -Encoding Utf8 -UseSsl
And now, the creating of the session. Few tips about it, you must force Authentication to basic if you are in a domain, because by defualt Kerberos will be used. The port must be forced to 443 because … this is the listening iDRac port 🙂
# Connect to CIM Session
$CIMSession = New-CimSession -Authentication Basic `
-Credential $Credentials -ComputerName iDRacServer -Port 443 -SessionOption $CIMSessionOption
Here is the result.. a old good CIM Session through WSMan 🙂
$CIMSession Id : 2 Name : CimSession2 InstanceId : 7e6a960d-0ad7-49ab-b7c0-f5295fe29d94 ComputerName : iDRacServer Protocol : WSMAN
Here, you’ll have to read the link previsouly given in the post, and you’ll can do something like that !
Get-CimInstance -CimSession $CIMSession `
-ResourceUri "http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/root/dcim/DCIM_SystemView"
AssetTag : BIOSReleaseDate : 08/29/2013 BIOSVersionString : 2.0.19 BaseBoardChassisSlot : NA BatteryRollupStatus : 1 BladeGeometry : 4 BoardPartNumber : ####### BoardSerialNumber : ################ CMCIP : CPLDVersion : 1.0.3 CPURollupStatus : 1 ChassisName : Main System Chassis ChassisServiceTag : 59C65Z1 ChassisSystemHeight : 1 ExpressServiceCode : 11448550333 FQDD : System.Embedded.1 FanRollupStatus : 1 HostName : iDRacServer InstanceID : System.Embedded.1 LastSystemInventoryTime : 20131230162013.000000+000 LastUpdateTime : 20130927163159.000000+000 LicensingRollupStatus : 1 LifecycleControllerVersion : 2.1.0 Manufacturer : Dell Inc. MaxCPUSockets : 2 MaxDIMMSlots : 24 MaxPCIeSlots : 2 MemoryOperationMode : OptimizerMode Model : PowerEdge R620 PSRollupStatus : 1 PlatformGUID : 315a354f-c0b5-3680-4310-00394c4c4544 PopulatedCPUSockets : 2 PopulatedDIMMSlots : 4 PopulatedPCIeSlots : 0 PowerCap : 465 PowerCapEnabledState : 3 PowerState : 2 PrimaryStatus : 1 RollupStatus : 1 ServerAllocation : ServiceTag : ####### StorageRollupStatus : 1 SysMemErrorMethodology : 6 SysMemFailOverState : NotInUse SysMemLocation : 3 SysMemMaxCapacitySize : 1572864 SysMemPrimaryStatus : 1 SysMemTotalSize : 32768 SystemGeneration : 12G Monolithic SystemID : 1230 SystemRevision : 0 TempRollupStatus : 1 UUID : 4c4c4544-0039-4310-8036-b5c04f355a31 VoltRollupStatus : 1 smbiosGUID : 44454c4c-3900-1043-8036-b5c04f355a31 PSComputerName : iDRacServer
Cool isn’t it ?
Hope you’ll find an use for this !
NB: do not forget to close your CIM Session because if it’s gone on timeout, you won’t be able to kill your session until your restart physically your server. i Mean you have to unplug the CPU !
Regards,
