HP Firmware versions with PowerCLI

For documentation purposes  I needed BIOS and ILO versions of the vSphere environment.

I got the script from http://vnugglets.com/2011/11/get-hp-firmware-info-for-hp-vmware.html and combined some updates in the comments in the script so that it also shows which NetXen firmware and NetXen drivers are on the system. I adapted the script to give the info for all machines in the cluster, not just a single cluster.

Foreach ($strHostsClusterName in Get-Cluster){

Get-View -ViewType HostSystem -Property Name, Runtime.HealthSystemRuntime.SystemHealthInfo.NumericSensorInfo -SearchRoot (Get-View -ViewType ClusterComputeResource -Property Name -Filter @{"Name" = "^$([RegEx]::escape($strHostsClusterName))$"}).MoRef | %{

    $arrNumericSensorInfo = @($_.Runtime.HealthSystemRuntime.SystemHealthInfo.NumericSensorInfo)

    # HostNumericSensorInfo for BIOS, iLO, array controller

    $nsiBIOS = $arrNumericSensorInfo | ? {$_.Name -like "*System BIOS*"}

    $nsiArrayCtrlr = $arrNumericSensorInfo | ? {$_.Name -like "HP Smart Array Controller*"}

    $nsiILO = $arrNumericSensorInfo | ? {$_.Name -like "Hewlett-Packard BMC Firmware*"}

    $nsiNXdev = $arrNumericSensorInfo | ? {$_.Name -like "nx_nic device*"}

    $nsiNXdrv = $arrNumericSensorInfo | ? {$_.Name -like "nx_nic driver*"}

    # assume all at same level and take first or set as n/a

    if ( $nsiNXdev.Count -gt 0 ) {

       $nsiNXdevice = $nsiNXdev[0].Name

    } else {

       $nsiNXdevice = "n/a"

    }

    if ( $nsiNXdrv.Count -gt 0 ) {

       $nsiNXdriver = $nsiNXdrv[0].Name

    } else {

    $nsiNXdriver = "n/a"

    }

New-Object PSObject -Property @{

VMHost = $_.Name

"SystemBIOS" = $nsiBIOS.name

"HPSmartArray" = $nsiArrayCtrlr.Name

"iLOFirmware" = $nsiILO.Name

"nx_nic device" = $nsiNXdevice

"nx_nic driver" = $nsiNXdriver

    } ## end new-object

} ## end Foreach-Object

}

If I feel like it, I'll someday add LSI Logic cards and such as well. For now, it got me the info I needed, without logging on to 20 servers ;-)

Run the script from PowerCLI, by first connecting to the vCenter (Connect-Viserver <vcenter>) and then ./fwscript.ps1 | Export-CSV d:\fwlist.csv

CDP info from vSphere platform

For documentation purposes, I wanted to get an overview of all host connections to which switches they are connected, and which ports exactly. As luck would have it, VMware already has made some scripts to do this.

I adapted it to suit my needs:

$Hosts = Get-VMHost | sort -property Name

foreach ($vhost in $Hosts){

$vmh = Get-VMHost -Name $vhost

If ($vmh.State -ne "Connected") {

  Write-Output "Host $($vmh) state is not connected, skipping."

  }

Else {

  Get-View $vmh.ID | `

  % { $esxname = $_.Name; Get-View $_.ConfigManager.NetworkSystem} | `

  % { foreach ($physnic in $_.NetworkInfo.Pnic) {

    $pnicInfo = $_.QueryNetworkHint($physnic.Device)

    foreach( $hint in $pnicInfo ){

      # Write-Host $esxname $physnic.Device

      if ( $hint.ConnectedSwitchPort ) {

        $hint.ConnectedSwitchPort | select @{n="VMHost";e={$esxname}},@{n="VMNic";e={$physnic.Device}},DevId,PortId

        }

      }

    }

  }

}

}

To run this, simply copy this script to a file, open up powershell, connect to vcenter, and run it with:

.\VMHostCDPInfo.ps1 | Format-Table -AutoSize |Out-File cdpinfo.txt

It ignores all nics where it cannot retrieve any CDP info from, but other than that, you get a nice list, which you can put with your documentation which looks like:

VMHost          VMNic   DevId    PortId
------          -----   -----    ------
server01        vmnic0  switch01 GigabitEthernet1/25
server01        vmnic10 switch02 GigabitEthernet2/0/31