“The Command Prompt ain’t no terminal session”
Perl is cool, and needs more street credit with Cisco UCS. Cool examples here of Perl used with Cisco UCS. PowerShell is where it is really at but looking at what is being done with Perl… hmm, this isn’t to be passed by without some attention.
Cisco UCS C220 C-series serial numbers
http://webmaxtor.blogspot.com/2013/11/ucs-rack-server-serial-numbers.html
Automate Cisco UCS Server Provisioning
http://www.laneroush.com/automate-cisco-ucs-server-provisioning-part-1/
Perl UCS Module at CPAN
http://search.cpan.org/~ltp/Cisco-UCS-0.03/
Also at GitHub https://github.com/ltp/Cisco-UCS
Interesting Classes in this Module:
| Cisco::UCS | A Perl interface to the Cisco UCS XML API | 0.33 | |
| Cisco::UCS::Blade | Class for operations with a Cisco UCS blade. | 0.4 | |
| Cisco::UCS::Blade::CPU | Class for operations with a Cisco UCS Blade CPUs. | 0.01 | |
| Cisco::UCS::Blade::PowerBudget | Class for operations with a Cisco UCS blade power budgets. | 0.01 | |
| Cisco::UCS::Chassis | Class providing operations with a Cisco UCS Chassis | 0.2 | |
| Cisco::UCS::Chassis::Stats | Class for operations with Cisco UCS chassis power statistics. | 0.01 | |
| Cisco::UCS::Common::EnvironmentalStats | Class for operations with Cisco UCS environmental stati. | 0.01 | |
| Cisco::UCS::Common::EthernetPort | Class for operations with a Cisco UCS Ethernet Port. | 0.1 | |
| Cisco::UCS::Common::Fan | Class for operations with a Cisco UCS fan. | 0.2 | |
| Cisco::UCS::Common::FanModule | Class for operations with a Cisco UCS Fan Module | 0.1 | |
| Cisco::UCS::Common::PSU | Class for operations with a Cisco UCS PSU. | 0.11 | |
| Cisco::UCS::Common::PowerStats | Class for operations with Cisco UCS power usage statistics. | 0.01 | |
| Cisco::UCS::Common::SwitchCard | Class for operations with a Cisco UCS switch card. | 0.21 | |
| Cisco::UCS::FEX | Class for operations with a Cisco UCS FEX. | 0.11 | |
| Cisco::UCS::Fault | Class for operations with Cisco UCS fault instances. | 0.11 | |
| Cisco::UCS::Interconnect | Class for operations with a Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect | 0.16 | |
| Cisco::UCS::MgmtEntity | Class for operations with a Cisco UCSM Management Entity | 0.12 | |
| Cisco::UCS::ServiceProfile | Class for operations with a Cisco UCS Service Profile. | 0.11 |
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Examples of Perl scripts for Cisco UCS over at Communites
https://communities.cisco.com/community/technology/datacenter/ucs_user_group/americas_user_groups/canada/blog/2012/11/30/powertool-and-friends–three-years-of-scripting-the-ucs-xml-api
https://communities.cisco.com/community/technology/datacenter/ucs_user_group/americas_user_groups/canada/blog/2012/11/30/powertool-and-friends–three-years-of-scripting-the-ucs-xml-api
PowerShell out features Perl at the moment, but I am a Perl Hacker from “Back in the Day”. Will have to spend some time with this.
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