Isilon-POSH

EMC Isilon Platform API implementation in Powershell

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This is an inofficial (not by EMC) Powershell module that allows you to manage your EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS systems by Powershell.

More Information clould be found in these blog posts:

• http://blog.banck.net/2013/12/isilon-rest-api-using-powershell-part-1.html
• http://blog.banck.net/2014/01/isilon-rest-api-using-powershell-part-2.html
• http://blog.banck.net/2014/08/tcp-connection-hanging-in-close_wait-when-using-invoke-restmethod-with-put-or-delete/

Requirements

• Powershell 3.0 and newer
• Isilon OneFS 7.1.0.0 and newer

Features

• Websession support, no need to store password
• PowerShell pipeline support
• concurrently connecting to multiple Isilon clusters
• 100% of the Platform API for OneFS v7.2 covered
• confirmation and error handling

Installation

Copy the folder 'IsilonPlatform' and 'SSLValidation' to the desired module path. You can find the configured Powershell module paths in the variable

$env:PSModulePath

Examples

Import-Module IsilonPlatform

# connect Isilon using FQDN
New-isiSession -ComputerName isilonc1.emc.lab -Username root -Password a

# connect Isilon using IP address and configure a Cluster name
New-isiSession -ComputerName 192.168.10.100 -Username root -Password a -Cluster isilonc2

# Get all SMB shares for default cluster
Get-isiSmbShares

# Get all SMB shares for cluster isilonc2.emc.lab
Get-isiSmbShares -Cluster isilonc2

# Get all SMB shares for all connected cluster
Get-isiSession | Get-isiSmbShares

# create new SMB share
New-isiSmbShare -name HR -path '/ifs/data/HR'

# add a describtion to all SMB shares that have 'test' in there share name
Get-isiSmbShares | where name -like '*test*' | Set-isiSmbShare -description 'This is a Test Share'

# print help for function New-isiSmbShares
Get-Help -Detailed New-isiSmbShares

SSL Validation

If you are using self signed certificates on your Isilon you need to disable SSL validation in powershell. This could be accomplished by code from Matthew Graeber. (http://poshcode.org/3606) The code could also be found in this repository.

Import-Module SSLValidation
Disable-SSLValidation

DISCLAIMER

This Powershell Module is not supported. Use at your own risk!