powerCli and web interface?

[ranjitcool]

Hey Guys,

I am learning powercli, However i was thinking, does powercli be run using php or some web based app (preferably php).

I mean I want to be able to create a tool where i have predefined functions and powercli in the back to run them

Please advice.

Thanks

RJ

[LucD]

Did you already check out PowerShell ASP from /n Software ?

[aevrov]

Hi Ranjitcool

There are tools that run as a web application which host Powershell ( + PowerCLI ) inside. Examples are PowershellASP and Powershell Server. You can use those products or you can host the Powershell engine yourself (you will need .NET to do this, since Powershell is a .NET application).

Regards,

-Angel

[ranjitcool]

Thanks for the quick replies. Well I am terrible at asp, wellbecause i never bothered to look at it.

It sucks that vmware chose powershell instead of open source php or perl for cli stuff.

RJ

[Josh26]

RJ wrote:

perl for cli stuff.

RJ

The rCLI is all Perl based. It is worth looking at what you can do there, though I agree it is quite limited next to PowerCLI.

I do agree that I would personally be quite uninterested in Powershell as a development platform.