ilorest tool on Centos/RHEL - flashfwpkg

[NeillC]

The ilorest flasfwpkg tool fails on Linux with an error like:

ERROR: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:  '$HOME/.iLOrest/cache/jtvuuqlqcdom\\payload.json'

There is a file $HOME/.iLOrest/cache/jtvuuqlqcdom/payload.json'

It looks like the ilorest tool is using the wrong separator for the file path.

Does anyone know how to fix/work around this?

Note: using the Windows version of ilorest is not a viable option.

[josh_koontz]

I'm seeing the exact same behavior.  Has anybody found the solution?

I tried the --nocache option, but that didn't change the error message.

[ramana_85]

Which version ILO REST tool is being used for this issue. If you are using 2.4. Kindly use Version 2.3 and let us know the result

[NeillC]

Using the latest version from the HP website.

We eventually downloaded the source code from github and changed the file separator.

Problems lines are in src/extensions/iLO REPOSITORY COMMANDS/FwpkgCommand.py

Lines 205 and 263  both use string concatenation and a hardcoded separator of '\\' to create the filename. Changing that constant to '/' fixes the problem on Linux, but would not work on Windows.

Using os.path.join (https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.path.html#os.path.join) would make the code platform independent. Or at least use os.sep (https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.sep)

As a side comment - distributing this as an executable compiled with pyinstaller adds considerably to the difficulty of making changes. If seuptools was used instead the source code would be much easier to work with.

[Jimmy Vance]

I've passed your comments on to the team that maintains ilorest

[Jimmy Vance]

Response from the ilorest team

We are aware of this issue and already have applied a fix which we be available in the next release.

 The tool is avalable as source instead of an executable on github. 
https://github.com/HewlettPackard/python-redfish-utility