Month: December 2019

Access Deny When Run PowerShell Scripts

You may get access deny when modify particular section of Windows Server. Such as some registry keys or system directories.

The reason is Windows Server protects sensitive part of operating system. This is similar like running command without root permission on Linux. You have to run as administrator to work around access deny problem.

I faced this issue when run guest command on Embotics Commander workflow. Looks like there is no official document talk about this issue. The workaround is disable UAC on Windows Server. Following are some helpful references.

Please refer to Disabling User Account Control (UAC) on Windows Server to understanding impact of disable UAC.

There are plenty of articles on internet talk about how to disable UAC.

There are two steps:

  • Disable UAC notification in Control Panel.
  • Change value of key EnableLUA from 1 to 0 in registry path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionpoliciessystem.

You may need to reboot the server, or wait few minutes.

Validation is you should see a reminder message when run command.

Get SSD Hard Disk Information by PowerShell to HPE Servers

Summary

HPE published an advisor for SSD issue recently. The issue impacts most popular Proliant servers in the world. The remediation is upgrading firmware. Unfortunately HPE doesn’t have a product can easy report hard disk model for Gen9 and earlier models. I have tried HPE OneView and OneView Global Dashboard. However, we can get SSD hard disk information by PowerShell through API.

Solution

Following procedure helps you get SSD hard disk information in large environment.

  1. Make sure you have same credential available on iLO of Proliant servers. It can be local or domain credentials.
  2. Prepare a Windows 2016 or Windows 10 computer with latest patch and internet.
  3. Install HPEiLOCmdlet by following PowerShell command
Install-Module -Name HPEiLOCmdlets
  1. Connecting to HPE iLO.
$Conn = Connect-HPEiLO -IP xxx -User xxx -Password xxx -DisableCertificateAuthentication
  1. Retrieving HPE Smart Array Storage Controller information.
$HardDisks = Get-HPEiLOSmartArrayStorageController -Connection $Conn
  1. Run following command to get physical disk information.
HardDisks.Controllers.PhysicalDrives

Conclusion

PowerShell API is much flexible to get any information of hardware. The solution above is core part. Of course you can leverage ForEach-Object to do some automation report to export to CSV file. PowerShell is not only method, you can also get SSD hard disk information by other API.