redfish-utilities 0.8.0

Redfish Utilities

Redfish Tackebox

Copyright 2019 DMTF. All rights reserved.

About

Redfish Tacklebox contains a set of Python utilities to perform common management operations with a Redfish service. The utilities can be used as part of larger management applications, or be used as standalone command line tools.

Installation

pip install redfish_utilities

Building from Source

python setup.py sdist --formats=zip
cd dist
pip install redfish_utilities-x.x.x.zip

Requirements

External modules:

• redfish: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/redfish

You may install the external modules by running:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Utilities

Sensor List

usage: rf_sensor_list [-h] --user USER --password PASSWORD --rhost RHOST

A tool to walk a Redfish service and list sensor info

required arguments:
  --user USER, -u USER  The user name for authentication
  --password PASSWORD, -p PASSWORD
                        The password for authentication
  --rhost RHOST, -r RHOST
                        The address of the Redfish service (with scheme)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

Example: rf_sensor_list -u root -p root -r https://192.168.1.100

The tool will log into the service specified by the rhost argument using the credentials provided by the user and password arguments. It then traverses the Chassis Collection for the Service, and reads their respective Power and Thermal Resources. Using the information from those resources, it will build a sensor table and print the information collected.

Power/Reset

usage: rf_power_reset [-h] --user USER --password PASSWORD --rhost RHOST
                      [--system SYSTEM] [--type TYPE]

A tool to perform a power/reset operation of a system

required arguments:
  --user USER, -u USER  The user name for authentication
  --password PASSWORD, -p PASSWORD
                        The password for authentication
  --rhost RHOST, -r RHOST
                        The address of the Redfish service (with scheme)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --system SYSTEM, -s SYSTEM
                        The ID of the system perform the operation
  --type TYPE, -t TYPE  The type of power/reset operation to perform

Example: rf_power_reset -u root -p root -r https://192.168.1.100 -t GracefulRestart

The tool will log into the service specified by the rhost argument using the credentials provided by the user and password arguments. It then traverses the System Collection for the Service to find the matching system specified by the system argument. It will perform the Reset action with the specified reset type from the type argument.

• If system is not specified, and if the Service has exactly one system, it will perform the operation on the one system.
• If type is not specified, it will attempt a GracefulRestart.

Boot Override

usage: rf_boot_override [-h] --user USER --password PASSWORD --rhost RHOST
                        [--system SYSTEM] [--target TARGET] [--uefi UEFI]
                        [--reset]

A tool to perform a one time boot override of a system

required arguments:
  --user USER, -u USER  The user name for authentication
  --password PASSWORD, -p PASSWORD
                        The password for authentication
  --rhost RHOST, -r RHOST
                        The address of the Redfish service (with scheme)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --system SYSTEM, -s SYSTEM
                        The ID of the system to set
  --target TARGET, -t TARGET
                        The target boot device; if not provided the tool will
                        display the current boot settings
  --uefi UEFI, -uefi UEFI
                        If target is 'UefiTarget', the UEFI Device Path of the
                        device to boot. If target is 'UefiBootNext', the UEFI
                        Boot Option string of the device to boot.
  --reset, -reset       Signifies that the system is reset after the boot
                        override is set

Example: rf_boot_override -u root -p root -r https://192.168.1.100 -t Pxe -reset

The tool will log into the service specified by the rhost argument using the credentials provided by the user and password arguments. It then traverses the System Collection for the Service to find the matching system specified by the system argument.

• If system is not specified, and if the Service has exactly one system, it will perform the operation on the one system.

The tool will then perform an operation on the Boot object within the matching system.

• If target is specified, it will update the Boot object to set the boot override to be target.
  • If reset is provided, it will reset the system after updating the Boot object.
• If target is not specified, it will display the current boot override settings for the system.

Update

usage: rf_update [-h] --user USER --password PASSWORD --rhost RHOST --image
                 IMAGE [--target TARGET]

A tool to perform an update with a Redfish service

required arguments:
  --user USER, -u USER  The user name for authentication
  --password PASSWORD, -p PASSWORD
                        The password for authentication
  --rhost RHOST, -r RHOST
                        The address of the Redfish service (with scheme)
  --image IMAGE, -i IMAGE
                        The URI or filepath of the image

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --target TARGET, -t TARGET
                        The target resource to apply the image

The tool will log into the service specified by the rhost argument using the credentials provided by the user and password arguments. It then builds a request payload to perform a Simple Update action against the Update Service using the image specified by the image argument. The optional target argument is used in the request if attempting to update a particular system, device, manager, or other resource. Once the Simple Update is requested, it monitors the progress of the update, and displays response messages reported by the service about the update once complete.

Release Process

1. Update CHANGELOG.md with the list of changes since the last release
2. Update setup.py to reflect the new version
3. Push changes to Github and create a new release
4. Push the new tool version to pypi.org
   • python setup.py sdist
   • twine upload dist/*