• About Redfish Crawler
  • Requirements
  • Setup
    • Crawler Standalone Script
    • Crawler Standalone within a virtualenv
  • Usage

Redfish Crawler

The Redfish Crawler is a python standalone cli tool for generating a folder structure with all of it's json responses for all available endpoint on a server's own Redfish implementation.

Requirements

• iDRAC7,8 or newer
• Firmware version 2.60.60.60 or higher
• iDRAC administrative account
• Python >= 3.6
• requirements.txt

Setup

Crawler Standalone Script

> git clone https://github.com/grafuls/redfish-crawler && cd redfish-crawler
> pip install -r requirements.txt

NOTE:

• This will allow the crawler script execution via ./crawler.py

Crawler Standalone within a virtualenv

> git clone https://github.com/grafuls/redfish-crawler && cd redfish-crawler
> virtualenv .crawler_venv
> source .crawler_venv/bin/activate
> pip install -r requirements.txt

NOTE:

• Both setup methods above can be used within a virtualenv
• After using crawler, the virtual environment can be deactivated running the deactivate command

Usage

> ./crawler.py -u root -p {PASS} -H mgmt-server-r640.example.com

NOTE:

• This will create a root directory with the server's shortname on the current working directory, which will include all endpoints directories and json output files.
• Some endpoints are blacklisted as data from those is deemed irrelevant and costly:
  • "jsonschemas"
  • "logservices"
  • "secureboot"
  • "lclog"
  • "assembly"
  • "metrics"
  • "memorymetrics"
  • "telemetryservice"
  • "sessions"