VMware NSX and Arista VXLAN VTEP L2 Gateway Integration
During the last weeks, we had a chance to work with the VMware NSX for Multi-Hypervisor (NSX-MH) software defined networking solution. In the following post, we want to focus on […]
ServiceMesh AgilityPlatform: Login via PowerShell
Here is a quick script on how to login to ServiceMesh AgilityPlatform. Never heard of the product? don’t bother. It works nevertheless … Subsequent calls to AgilityPlatform are then execeuted like this (eg list all projects on the platform): An easy way to check if the login session is still valid is to issue the following request: You should receive […]
biz.dfch.PS.Storebox.Api: Invoke-CteraFileTransfer
I updated the biz.dfch.PS.Storebox.Api for being able to have file transfers to and from Ctera (Storebox) via its REST API. There you will also find the link to the NuGet package and the Github repository. With it you can get a directory listing, download and upload a file. It uses our logging module as well as the generic ‘Invoke-CteraRestCommand’. There […]
[biz.dfch.PS.System.Data] Invoke-SqlCmd without the overhead
=== UPDATE 2014-10-19 === I created a separate module that uses the SqlClient where you do not have to specify the command type and where you can also use LocalDB connections. === For the full module and description see my Post Module: biz.dfch.PS.System.Data. === UPDATE 2013-12-21 === added an additional parameter to specify the command type manually === Sometimes we […]
Search-OSCEXOEmailMessage does not handle PageSize and Paging correctly
Another bug in the OSCEXO module… When searching for mails within a mailbox well known folder with more than “PageSize” messages the cmdlet Search-OSCEXOEmailMessage never return and keeps “searching” forever (or until you run out of memory – whatever happens first). The reason behind this is that the code that handles the “ExchangeService.FindItems()” calls does not increase the PageOffset and […]
PowerShell New-WebServiceProxy fails to instantiate Clickatell SOAP WebService
When trying to use the Clickatell SOAP WebService via “http://api.clickatell.com/soap/webservice.php?WSDL” you receive a “FileNotFoundException” exception: You effectively have to use the workaround described in the manual by calling the web service under this address: ‘http://api.clickatell.com/soap/webservice_vs.php?WSDL’. The reason behind it seems to be use of a conflicting attribute named ‘callback’.
CTERA Code Snipplets
Here are some code fragments that might help when dealing with CTERA REST responses. For a complete PowerShell module check this post Module: biz.dfch.PS.Storebox.Api. 1. Selecting an Attribute value based on its ‘id’: 2. Converting a list ov ‘val’ into an array 3. Loading XML template from ‘defaults’ and populate them:
Using DeathByCapture from PowerShell
DeathByCapture provides a .NET assembly for interaction with the mighty workforce overseas that lets you overcome those nasty captchas. Unfortunately you cannot use the assembly when you want to ‘[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile()’ as the ‘DeathByCaptcha.HttpClient’ is an abstract base class where you cannot pass the login credentials as arguments to the constructor. Adding the assembly to the GAC is not possible without […]
Search-OSCEXOEmailMessage does not return (S/MIME) signed messages from folder
I recently had the need to automatically retrieve and process emails. As I am using Office365 what could have been closer than trying to retrieve the emails via PowerShell and EWS. What I was not aware of is that the supplied Cmdlets that come with the “MSOnlineExtended” module only really deal with account and administration. And the Cmdlet in the […]
Communication with Apple iTunes Store and WebSite
Recently I had the task to automate a few things regarding AppleIDs. One of things was to create, change and verify AppleIDs. Having no tools (apart from Apples inofficial buggy AppleScript screen-click-automation scripts) I had a look at the HTTP communication between iTunes/the web client and the iTunes Store and AppleID servers. The login to AppleID is rather straightforward by […]
vCloud Director (vCD) allocates DistributedVirtualPorts from a DistributedVirtualPortGroup in a non-sequential order
When you have a DistributedVirtualPortGroup in vCenter (vC) with a fixed number of VirtualPorts of 10 and you set that DistributedVirtualPortGroup to “non-expanding” you will get an error with vCloud Director (vCD) when you try to allocate more than one (1) DistributedVirtualPort. However, when you look at the DVS DistributedVirtualPortGroup you find enough available DVS DistributedVirtualPort displayed. The error message […]
Get-CiVm CmdLet is much slower than the direct underlying REST calls
Using PowerCLI for fun and profit in general is a great thing to do – in general… However, in certain cases PowerCLIs implementation is much slower than using the underlying REST calls directly. This is especially true when using Get-CiVm to get information about a vCloud Director (vCD) virtual machine. Consider the following fragment: This is all pretty fast, as […]
Module: biz.dfch.PS.Storebox.Api
[UPDATE 2014-11-16] The module is now available on NuGet. See below for download link. [UPDATE 2014-10-13] I split the module into separate PS1 files (one per cmdlet/function) and created a manifest for it. Now you can use a prefix and change the name of the cmdlets (the default prefix is ‘Ctera’). Here you find the PowerShell module that you can […]
RedHat Cloud Tour 2012: Swisscom Public Cloud
This year I was invited to speak on the RedHat European Cloud tour 2012 about the Swisscom Public Cloud at the Dolder Hotel in Zürich. I had quite a good time and was able to meet some intersting people. Thanks to Leonard Bodmer from RedHat for the invitation! REDHAT CLOUD TOUR 2012
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