iLO automation from python or shell

HP servers come with a powerful out of band management interface called Integrated Lights out, or iLO. It has an extensive web interface and commercially available tools for centrally managing iLO devices and their servers.

But if you want to built your own tooling, integrate iLO management to your existing procedures or simply want to manage iLOs using a command-line interface, you're stuck manually creating XML files and using a perl hack HP ships called locfg.pl.

Enter python-hpilo!

Using the same XML interface as HP's own management tools, here is a python library and command-line tool that make it a lot easier to do all the above. No manual XML writing, just call functions from either python or your shell(script).

There’s an amazing amount of data available on the Web. Many web services, like YouTube and GitHub, make their data accessible to third-party applications through an application programming interface (API). One of the most popular ways to build APIs is the REST architecture style. Python provides some great tools not only to get data from REST APIs but also to build your own Python REST APIs.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn:

• What REST architecture is
• How REST APIs provide access to web data
• How to consume data from REST APIs using the requests library
• What steps to take to build a REST API
• What some popular Python tools are for building REST APIs

By using Python and REST APIs, you can retrieve, parse, update, and manipulate the data provided by any web service you’re interested in.

I am running some legacy OSes (Windows 10, …) inside libvirt/KVM virtual machines and since I got my new 4K displays (hello Home Office), I was annoyed that I could not full-screen them on the large displays.

So finally I took some time to investigate and quickly (to my surprise) found the solution. As if we were back in the 1990ties, I did not provide the virtual machine with enough video RAM to properly go to the higher resolutions.

Web Services Made Easy (WSME) simplifies the writing of REST web services by providing simple yet powerful typing, removing the need to directly manipulate the request and the response objects.

WSME can work standalone or on top of your favorite Python web (micro)framework, so you can use both your preferred way of routing your REST requests and most of the features of WSME that rely on the typing system like:

Alternate protocols, including those supporting batch-calls
Easy documentation through a Sphinx extension

WSME is originally a rewrite of TGWebServices with a focus on extensibility, framework-independance and better type handling.

XML-RPC: Was so aussieht, als wäre jemand mit dem Kopf auf der Tastatur eingeschlafen, ist in Wirklichkeit eine Schwachstelle in WordPress, über die Hacker dich mit einer DDoS- oder Brute-Force-Attacke angreifen können. Entsprechende Angriffe werden seit einigen Jahren immer wieder beobachtet. Das Problem verbirgt sich in einer Datei namens xmlrpc.php, die im Root-Ordner deiner WordPress-Installation liegt. Ich erkläre dir, was XML-RPC ist und warum du ein Auge darauf haben solltest.

In concept nxlog is similar to syslog-ng or rsyslog but it is not limited to unix and syslog only. It supports different platforms, log sources and formats so nxlog can be an ideal choice to implement a centralized logging system.

Centralize your Windows, Unix, Linux, BSD, Android and application logs on Windows, Unix, Linux, BSD, Android.