I use HttpWebRequest from .NET. Here is some code doing a POST of a RIBCL command
public string doiLO3Request(string requestRibcl)
{
ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = new RemoteCertificateValidationCallback(iLOCertificateValidation);
HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("https://192.168.0.100/ribcl") as HttpWebRequest;
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "text/xml";
request.KeepAlive = false;
request.SendChunked = true;
request.Headers.Add("TE: chunked"); //iLO 3 needs this TE header instead of the proper Transfer-Encoding header
request.ContentLength = requestRibcl.Length;
request.GetRequestStream().Write(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(requestRibcl), 0, requestRibcl.Length);
request.GetRequestStream().Flush();
request.GetRequestStream().Close();
HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;
Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader responseReader = new StreamReader(responseStream);
string results = "";
results = responseReader.ReadToEnd();
response.Close();
return results;
}
public bool iLOCertificateValidation(Object sender, X509Certificate cert, X509Chain chain, SslPolicyErrors Errors) {
//we don't care about certificate validity, we just want to read what the server provides
return true;
}
and requestRibcl looks like this to read server name, uid status etc...
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<RIBCL VERSION="2.22">
<LOGIN USER_LOGIN="Administrator" PASSWORD="yourAdminPasswd">
<SERVER_INFO MODE="read"><GET_SERVER_NAME/></SERVER_INFO>
<SERVER_INFO MODE="read"><GET_UID_STATUS/></SERVER_INFO>
<SERVER_INFO MODE="read"><GET_HOST_POWER_STATUS/></SERVER_INFO>
<SERVER_INFO MODE="read"><GET_SERVER_AUTO_PWR/></SERVER_INFO>
<RIB_INFO MODE="read"><GET_FW_VERSION/></RIB_INFO>
</LOGIN>
</RIBCL>
BUT, be warned, the xml required and returned is CRAP, full of non standard junk, so don't expect any xml parsing tools (ie the excellent .NET Xml.Linq.XElement) to be able to help .
Good luck.
