Baseboard Management Controller info

[DawsonUK]

Hi, I'm wanting to include the IP address of the iLO/Management Controller for an ESX host in a report, this information is available in vCenter, on the hardware status tab of the host, under Baseboard Management Controller. 

I can't seem to find a way of retrieving that information using powercli.  Can anyone advise if this is possible and if so, how?   Cheers.

[LucD]

Does 3.  Re: Hardware sensors work for you ?

[DawsonUK]

Hi LucD, cheers for the reply.  I saw that script when I was initially searching for an answer and disregarded it as I thought it was connecting to the iLO IP which would defeat the object for me, but I can see now that's not the case.  I've given it a quick try and I get an error stating 'Basic Authentication is currently disabled in the client configuration', I'll look into it further tomorrow when I have some time and hopefully sort it out.  thanks.

[MKguy]

I've also written a generic function that is compatible with Powershell v2 as well you can use to query specific CIM information, such as IPMI/BMC details:

https://github.com/alpacacode/Homebrewn-Scripts/blob/master/vmware-scripts/Get-CIMProperties.ps1

For example, to just get the IP of the ESXi host BMC:

(Get-CIMProperties -Target myesxihost.local -Username root | ? {$_.NAME -eq 'IPv4Address'}).Value

[DawsonUK]

Hi MKGuy, thanks for the suggestion however I've managed to get this working late yesterday.  I'm using the code that LucD provided but rather than supplying a username/password for the connection I'm using the AcquireCimServicesTicket method when connected to vcenter to authenticate the session.  It seems to work quite well and I can trawl through the ESX hosts connected to the VC quite easily.  It just means now that anyone running the script needs to be using powershell v3, but that's not too big a deal.

Thanks LucD for the link!

[Sivaramsharmar]

Hi Dawson,

Could you please post the code you have modified for getting ILO IP by using AcquireCimServices Ticket Method .

[DawsonUK]

Sure, here you go.

$h = Get-VMHost "HOST_NAME"

$hv = $h | Get-View

$CIMServicesTicket = $hv.AcquireCimServicesTicket()

$Password = ConvertTo-SecureString $CIMServicesTicket.SessionId -AsPlainText -Force

$Credential = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $CIMServicesTicket.SessionId, $Password

$CIOpt = New-CimSessionOption -SkipCACheck -SkipCNCheck -SkipRevocationCheck -Encoding Utf8 -UseSsl

$Session = New-CimSession -Authentication Basic -Credential $Credential -ComputerName $hv.name -port 443 -SessionOption $CIOpt

$ILO = Get-CimInstance -CimSession $Session -ClassName CIM_ServiceAccessPoint | Where {$_.SystemName -match "Management"}

[Sivaramsharmar]

Hi Dawson,

Thanks for posting the script,

Still I am getting basic authentication error. Please find the error below.

New-CimSession : The WinRM client cannot process the request. Basic

authentication is currently disabled in the client configuration. Change the

client configuration and try the request again.

At line:1 char:12

+ $Session = New-CimSession -Authentication Basic -Credential $Credential

-Compute ...

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : NotEnabled: (:) [New-CimSession], CimException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : HRESULT 0x803380df,Microsoft.Management.Infrastr

   ucture.CimCmdlets.NewCimSessionCommand

    + PSComputerName        : ESXihost1.domain.com

[DawsonUK]

Hi, I ran into this problem but it turned out to be the Windows Remote Management service wasn't started on my client.  Once started you can run the command winrm get winrm/config to see if client\auth\basic is enabled or not.  If disabled you'll need to enable it, a quick google search should get you the command for this.

[Sivaramsharmar]

I got it now, Thanks for your support.