Redfish:Accessing Redfish enabled systems using Python

Introduction

• This documents contains preparation on the OS to make redfish runs from the OS command line console.
• One sample python script is provided, with sample output.
• As of this writing, only Red Hat 6.x is supported (tested)
• This document only covers additional steps needed to make redfish run on the OS. It does not cover OS installation instructions.

Installation of Chrome Browser

• Not actually vital but useful for when you have to do individual manual test, launching RESTful API commands, etc
• Installation must be done as root

[root@localhost ~]# cd Downloads/
[root@localhost Downloads]# wget http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/install_chrome.sh
--2016-01-11 03:50:00--  http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/install_chrome.sh
Resolving chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk... 193.110.246.53
Connecting to chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk|193.110.246.53|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 79768 (78K) [application/x-sh]
Saving to: “install_chrome.sh”

100%[================================================================================>] 79,768      --.-K/s   in 0.1s    

2016-01-11 03:50:01 (541 KB/s) - “install_chrome.sh” saved [79768/79768]

[root@localhost Downloads]# chmod +x install_chrome.sh 
[root@localhost Downloads]# ./install_chrome.sh

Installation of Python 2.7

• Next, you will need to install Python 2.7, since Red Hat default Python version is 2.6
• Warning: Red Hat OS depends on Python version 2.6, therefore, Python version 2.7 must coexist, and you are not allowed to replace version 2.6