PowerShell: Automate SUN ILOM configuration
I’m currently winding down on a datacenter build that has consumed me for the better part of six months. Last night our team went through and stood up vSphere on 200+ hosts. I know that’s nothing for you cloud providers, but that’s a lot of servers for the average IT shop. Being a lights out datacenter we have 3 management paths to every server IP-KVM, ILOM, and serial ports. Going through and setting all that up would have been a pain in the but, so I did a little searching and found how to configure the SUN ILOM via the serial port. With that document and little experimentation I quickly had my script, now all that was left was to learn how to script via a COM port. I turned to BING and found this article which pointed me to a new-to-me .Net Class… about 4hrs later I had a complete solution, and yet another example of the Admin Development Model.
