SRS Enabled

[Pilu1978]

Hi,

I have requirement to find out if Dell EMC Secure Remote Service (SRS) is enabled on a VxRail cluster using powercli.

How can I get this info?

[LucD]

Perhaps by asking on the Dell VxRail community.
The vXRail.API modules can probably help or else use a direct REST API call.

[Pilu1978]

Thanks for your reply.

However this information can be seen in vSphere client as shown below:

is it not possible to retrieve this information using powercli?

[LucD]

Not that I know off, I suspect that info is coming from a plugin in the Web Client

[Pilu1978]

Hi LucD,

As per your advice I have checked with Dell VxRail community and they have given the following API to get the SRS details:

I tried using the following but failing every time. I have tried using [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = "tls12" to fix this issue but it is still giving same error.

I actually do not know how to call API using powercli even not sure if I am doing it correctly. If it required authentication if yes then how to provide that. Please help.

[LucD]

Well, the screenshot of that page describing the APi does say that you need to add Basic authentication.
That is normally done through the Headers parameter on the Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet.

Btw, this has nothing to do with PowerCLI and is a pure PowerShell and REST API thing.

[Pilu1978]

Thanks for reply.

After googling I found the following which tells me how to create a header object:

But one confusion. How to get the token. I have the credential for VxRail manager. How do I use that in the header? Please help.

[LucD · Accepted solution]

I'm not sure where you got that from, but that is not what Basic authentication with a user and password is about.
A good example is the 1st snippet in REST API call with Basic Authentication in Powershell

But since I have no experience with the REST API on vxRail, I can not help you further than that I'm afraid