This is Microsoft PowerShell module is part of our Apache 2.0 based open source automation framework “Cumulus”. You will find all related posts via the “Cumulus” tag. You can use this module to perform operations against VMware vCenter infrastructure (the module makes use and abstracts VMware’s supplied PowerShell PowerCLI snapin). You can download the module on GitHub or on NuGet […]
This is Microsoft PowerShell module is part of our Apache 2.0 based open source automation framework “Cumulus”. You will find all related posts via the “Cumulus” tag. You can use this module to perform provisioning against SCCM 2012 infrastructure (the module makes use and abstracts Microsoft’s supplied PowerShell module ‘ConfigurationManager’). You can download the module on GitHub or on NuGet […]
This Microsoft PowerShell module contains Cmdlets to work with RabbitMQ queues, send and receive messages. It uses a wrapper I earlier presented that solved the problem of loading the official RabbitMQ .NET client into a PowerShell session. These Cmdlets further facilitate the handling of sending and receiving of messages via AMQP queues. You can download the module on GitHub or […]
UPDATE 2015-03-15 we just released v1.0.5 which contains a few new Cmdlets such as Sending SMS to Clickatell via PowerShell. We are currently working on an automation project where we make use of several of our modules that we created in the past. In order to ease integration into the customer’s code and provide a legal basis for re-using the […]
Finally I made it and found the time to upload the biz.dfch.PS.vCAC.Utilties PowerShell module! It is available for download at Github and NuGet (see below for links) and placed under the Apache 2.0 license. How to install: Copy the module along with the XML configuration file into a directory with the same name as the module under a path that […]
vCAC has the a built-in feature to define properties as drop down lists that can display information based on a selection of a different (parent) property (as described in the vCAC 5.2 Operating Guide). This is called a “ValueExpression”. Though this mechanism is a bit buggy and might even raise some security issues it is still quite useful in certain […]
I changed the way the biz.dfch.PS.System.Logging module implements its file writing by using log4net as the file logger. It makes use of the (static) FileAppender as the RollingFileAppender does not support concurrent access when rolling log files. So the log roll over is still handled within the PowerShell module directly (until I implement a custom lock for rolling the files […]
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:
[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 […]
[UPDATE 2015-12-22] The module is now available on PowerShell Gallery. [UPDATE 2014-11-15] The module is now available on NuGet. This module allows you to have a unified logging in PowerShell and all your scripts. It depends on log4net and thus provides great flexibility on how and where you log. Basic usage is as follows: Main configuration is defined in the […]