PowerShell OneView commandline clarification

ArubaGuy — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 21:37:13 GMT

Hey all, thanks for any help, I'm struggling to get this command to work:

get-hpovserver -name "[server name]" | stop-hpovserver

I need it to stop the server without the prompt to confirm (Yes, Yes to All, No, No to All, etc.). I have to write a script to do many of these servers in one shot. So far my Google-fu has failed me. Any tips?

Thanks!
Mike

Re: PowerShell OneView commandline clarification

ArubaGuy — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 22:48:28 GMT

Nevermind, figured it out. The command should be:

get-hpovserver -name "ILOMXQ834006Y" | stop-hpovserver -confirm:$false

I wish the documentation was clearer about the possible parameters for all of these scripts. If I look at the commandline specified in the Github page, it reads:

Stop-HPOVServer [-InputObject] <Object>[ [-Async] <SwitchParameter>] [-ApplianceConnection] <Object>[ [-WhatIf] <SwitchParameter>][ [-Confirm] <SwitchParameter>] [<CommonParameters>]

To me, that implies that after the "-Confirm", there should be a space, then some sort of parameter, similar to this:

stop-hpovserver -confirm false

I haven't found anywhere that has a general guide for how to use these parameters, such as "don't put a space, put a colon" and "possible values are: $true, $false", etc.

I've spent so much time banging my head on the unclear documentation for these PowerShell utilities, trying to randomly guess the right parameters... am I just missing something that gives you general usage info (not command-specific info)?

Thanks,

Mike

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