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Forum Post: Re: Alert/Telemetry Payloads

ghostCoder — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:43:00 GMT

Thanks a lot Butch for the information.

File: Actionable Alert Codes and their meanings

Butch Clark — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:22:00 GMT

Note: Actionable ISE alert codes begin on page 47.

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File: Perl Scripts for Automating Snapshots on Block Storage Controllers

Joel Grace — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:56:00 GMT

This package includes two example Perl scripts that allow for discovery of volumes on Block Storage Controller (Enterprise/Data Center) and the creation of snapshots through CorteX. FIle descriptions:

bsc.config - This is an XML config file that can be used to store the system Serial Number, IP address, and authentication info

bsc_getvols.pl - This script will query the BSC for all volumes, and report their GUID (needed for snapshot creation) as well as the volume type (primary, snapshot, metadata, etc) This script can be combined with bsc_snapvol.pl to perform the query and snapshot in a single script, or for verification purposes.

bsc_snapvol.pl - This script takes a given GUID ($src_id) and snapshot name ($dst) to create a snapshot of a volume. For the sake of an example script, the variables are set manually, but they certainly could be passed via @ARGV, entries in the bsc.config, or auto-generated, etc....

Forum Post: Re: VB.net Sample - Navigatigating URI's using DataGridView and ReadXML

Butch Clark — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 16:49:00 GMT

Hey Cush,

Awesome post!

I had it running in 5 minutes and was poking through my dev ISE! :)

Thanks much!

Butch>

Forum Post: Re: Visual Basic Sample Code using CorteX

jluetkemeyer — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 21:16:00 GMT

I'm still getting the pause after using your method for getting the data from the device. I think its stemming from the System.Net.NetworkCredential that has to be added for my device. Also, I think the way that you are running your loop is a different approach to what I am doing. I'm using a thread external to the ExecuteCortexGet which is closing the session after the function exits each time it is looped.

I have got a base going now for what I want to accomplish though, thanks for the help. I'm glad to know that we can get responses on this forum!

Forum Post: Perl Script using "curl" to manage a Xiotech Emprise 9000

jnicholson — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:04:00 GMT

This is a Perl script snippet that shows how to use "curl" as the web client to communicate with an Emprise 9000 storage system. Note that the Emprise 9000 communicates on HTTP port 8080.

Jeff

==================== Start of Code ============================

package Emprise9000Cortex;

use Env "ToolShare";

use lib "$ENV{ToolShare}";

use CommonSysUtil;

use ConfigParser;

use Logger;

use XML::Simple;

use Data::Dumper;

use File::Find;

use File::Glob;

use Date::Format;

use Cwd;

use Cwd 'abs_path';

our $curl = "$ENV{ToolShare}\\curl.exe";

sub getListOfVolumes {

my $emprise9k = $_[0];

my @volArray = ();

my $filename = "ises.xml";

my $cmd = "$curl -o "."$filename"." http://$emprise9k:8080/storage/media";

my $status;

$status = `$cmd`;

my $xml = new XML::Simple (KeyAttr=>[]);

my $file = abs_path($filename);

my $data = $xml->XMLin($file);

#print Dumper($data);

foreach my $vol (@{$data->{medium}}){

foreach my $el (@{$vol->{volumes}->{volume}}){

print "$el->{self}\n";

push(@volArray,$el->{self});

}

unlink($file);

return (@volArray);

}

sub getAllPools {

my $emprise9k = $_[0];

my $filename = "pools.xml";

my $cmd = "$curl -o "."$filename"." http://$emprise9k:8080/storage/pools";

my $status = `$cmd`;

my $xml = new XML::Simple (KeyAttr=>[]);

my $file = abs_path($filename);

my $data = $xml->XMLin($file);

my @myPools = ();

my @poolName = ();

my @aSizePool = ();

my @poolGlobalId = ();

my $size = 0 ;

print"\n";

foreach my $thispool (@{$data->{pool}})

{

push (@myPools,$thispool->{self});

print"$thispool->{self}\n";

$size = ($thispool->{available}->{total})/1073741824;

push (@aSizePool,$size);

push (@poolName, $thispool->{name});

print"$thispool->{name}\n";

push (@poolGlobalId,$thispool->{globalid});

print"$thispool->{globalid}\n";

$size = 0;

}

unlink($file);

return (\@poolName,\@aSizePool,\@myPools,\@poolGlobalId);

}

sub createUserVolume {

my $emprise9k = $_[0];

my $volSize = $_[1];

my $totalVolume = $_[2];

my $volumeName;

my @poolName = ();

my @aSizePool = ();

my @myPools = ();

my @volPool = ();

my @sizePool = ();

my @globalId = ();

my @pools = ();

my @poolGlobalId = ();

my $cached = "No";

my $command;

my ($one,$two,$three,$four) = getAllPools($emprise9k);

@poolName = @$one;

@aSizePool = @$two;

@myPools = @$three;

@poolGlobalId= @$four;

my $num = @myPools ;

if ( $num != 0 )

{

for ( my $i = 0 ; $i < $num ; $i++ )

{

printf("%-21s%15.3f%10d%50s\n",$poolName[$i],$aSizePool[$i],$poolGlobalId[$i],$myPools[$i]);

if ( !($poolName[$i] =~ /System_Storage_Tier/i ))

{

push (@volPool, $poolName[$i]);

push (@sizePool,$aSizePool[$i]);

push (@globalId,$poolGlobalId[$i]);

push (@pools,$myPools[$i]);

}

$num = @volPool ;

my $newPoolSize = 0;

for ( my $i = 0 ; $i < $num ; $i++ )

{

printf("%-21s%15.3f%10d%50s\n",$volPool[$i],$sizePool[$i],$globalId[$i],$pools[$i]);

}

my $volumeCount = 0 ;

my $x = 1 ;

my $y = 0;

for( my $i = 0 ; $i < $totalVolume ; $i++ )

{

$volumeName = "$volPool[$y]"."_Vol"."$x";

$command = "name=$volumeName&size=$volSize&poolid=$globalId[$y]&cache=$cached";

if ( $volSize < $sizePool[$y] )

{

createVolumeHelp($emprise9k,$command);

$volumeCount++;

$newPoolSize = $sizePool[$y] - $volSize ;

$sizePool[$y] = $newPoolSize ;

}

else {

print"The size of the volume is greater than the size of the pool $volPool[$y]\n";

}

$x++;

$y++;

}

sub createVolumeHelp {

my $emprise9k = $_[0];

my $command = $_[1];

my $url = "http://$emprise9k:8080/storage/volumes";

my $cmd = "$curl -H \"content-type:text/plain\" -d"."\"$command\""." http://$emprise9k:8080/storage/volumes";

my @runIt = `$cmd`;

}

# This subroutine uses listVolumesToDelete() subroutine to list all the user volumes to be deleted to an array

# then delete them all

sub deleteUserVolume {

my $emprise9k = $_[0];

my @volumes = listingVolumesToDelete($emprise9k);

my $total = @volumes;

if ( $total != 0 )

{

for ( my $i = 0 ; $i < $total ; $i++ )

{

print"\n";

print "Deleting volume: $volumes[$i]\n";

my $cmd = "$curl -X DELETE "."$volumes[$i]";

my @runIt = `$cmd`;

}

sub listingVolumesToDelete {

my $emprise9k = $_[0];

my @volArray = ();

my $filename = "volumes.xml";

my $cmd = "$curl -o "."$filename"." http://$emprise9k:8080/storage/volumes";

my $status;

$status = `$cmd`;

my $xml = new XML::Simple (KeyAttr=>[]);

my $file = abs_path($filename);

my $data = $xml->XMLin($file);

foreach my $vol (@{$data->{volume}})

{

if ( $vol->{type} eq "primary" )

{

#print " $vol->{self}\n";

push (@volArray, $vol->{self});

}

unlink($file);

return (@volArray);

}

==================== End of Code ============================

File: Xiotech Emprise 9000 CorteX API Document

jnicholson — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:52:00 GMT

This is the PDF document for the Xiotech Emprise 9000 CorteX API. It calls out the various resources and methods that can be manipulated on this storage device.

File: Xiotech Emprise 5000 CorteX API Document

jnicholson — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:51:00 GMT

This is the PDF document for the Xiotech Emprise 5000 CorteX API. It calls out the various resources and methods that can be manipulated on this storage device.

Forum Post: How to use CorteX HTTP Conditionals

jnicholson — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:07:00 GMT

How to use CorteX Conditional GET

CorteX ISE FW version post-1.6.2 allows web clients to take advantage of the HTTP Conditional GET process. This includes an entity tag (ETag) returned in most GET Request response headers. The ETag may be used to determine if certain resources have “changed state” since the last time the web client requested information regarding a particular resource or list of resources.

How it works

The web client will receive an ETag as part of the response header which can be used to pass the “If-Not-Modified” conditional to the web service to determine if the resource has changed between GET Requests. An example:

Web Client Request:

GET /storage/volumes

Web Service Response:

HTTP/1.0 200 OK

Etag: "7acd9b16a47ed1297c4ff34d79fd8c9b"

Content-type: application/xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><volumes self="http://........

The web client can capture the ETag returned in the response and use it in this manner for the next GET Request:

Web Client Request:

GET /storage/volumes

If-Not-Modified: "7acd9b16a47ed1297c4ff34d79fd8c9b"

Web Service Response:

HTTP/1.0 304 Not Modified

Etag: "7acd9b16a47ed1297c4ff34d79fd8c9b"

Content-length: 0

The web client will understand from the “304 Not Modified” response that the resource or list of resources has not changed since the last time it retrieved the information. Using Conditional GET significantly reduces network traffic by eliminating unneeded transfer of data if it has not changed over time. This works great with web clients that need to “poll” for status frequently.

How it Affects CorteX

Because of the reduction of network traffic using the Conditional GET process, the CorteX interface has removed the “returned=optional” capabilities on the participating resources such that all responses are fully verbose. This means that GET responses are either fully verbose or fully silent if the web client uses the ETag with “If-Not-Modified” conditional request header.

NOTE: The only exception to this is the “discoveredarray=yes” query at the main site page to get the list of discovered arrays from the storage device’s point-of-view.

How to use CorteX Conditional PUT

CorteX ISE FW version post-1.6.2 allows web clients to take advantage of the HTTP Conditional PUT process. This includes an entity tag (ETag) returned in most GET Request response headers. The ETag may be used to determine if certain resources have “changed state” since the last time the web client requested information regarding a particular resource or list of resources. When used with the HTTP PUT method, the web client can determine if the resource has changed since the last GET response before a PUT (modify) is executed. This is called “optimistic concurrency”. It is the opposite of implementing explicit locking mechanisms to handle multiple web clients (“pessimistic concurrency”).

How it works

The web client will receive an ETag as part of the GET response header which can be used to pass the “If-Match” conditional to the web service to determine if the resource has changed just before the PUT Request. An example:

Web Client Request:

GET /storage/volumes

Web Service Response:

HTTP/1.0 200 OK

Etag: "7acd9b16a47ed1297c4ff34d79fd8c9b"

Content-type: application/xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><volumes self="http://........

The web client can capture the ETag returned in the response and use it in this manner for the PUT Request to change the size of a particular volume:

Web Client Request:

PUT /storage/volume/{id}?size=44

If-Match: "7acd9b16a47ed1297c4ff34d79fd8c9b"

Web Service Response if there was no change previously:

HTTP/1.0 201 Created

Location: http://10.20.54.32/storage/volumes/{id}

Content-type: application/xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><response value="2">A volume was modified.</response>

If the resource was changed by some other web client, the concurrency capability comes into play when using the ETag with “If-Match”. An example where the ETag is no longer valid:

PUT /storage/volume/{id}?size=44

If-Match: "7acd9b16a47ed1297c4ff34d79fd8c9b"

Web Service Response if there was a change previously (ETag is old):

HTTP/1.0 412 Precondition Failed

Content-type: application/xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><response value="412">Precondition Failed: Unexpected change occurred since last GET</response>

Forum Post: PowerShell HTTP OPTIONS Function

jnicholson — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:11:00 GMT

Leveraging what jkusky entered for GET and POST, I've created a sample HTTP Options function for the REST services in Cortex.

The function requires a few parameters that are not listed

1. URI to the "page" your are attempting to OPTIONS to. example: "http://myISE/storage/volumes".

Executing the HTTP OPTIONS method will return the available HTTP Methods that a particular resource allows. The return location is actually in the HTTP Response Header, so the code will be a little bit different.

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function Execute-HTTPOptionsCommand()

{

param(

[string]$target = $null

)

$username = "administrator"

$password = "mypass"

$webRequest = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($target)

$webRequest.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = $false

$webRequest.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential -ArgumentList $username, $password

$webRequest.PreAuthenticate = $true

$webRequest.Method = "OPTIONS"

$requestStream = $webRequest.GetRequestStream()

$requestStream.Close()

[System.Net.WebResponse]$resp = $webRequest.GetResponse();

$header = $resp.Headers;

$rs = $resp.GetResponseStream();

[System.IO.StreamReader]$sr = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader -argumentList $rs;

[string]$results = $sr.ReadToEnd();

return "Allow: " + $header[0] + $results;

}

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To use the function, add the required variables and call the function

-------------------------------------------------------------

$URL = http://myise/storage/volumes

Execute-HTTPOptionsCommand $URL

RESPONSE:

Allow: GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS {plus XSD information afterward}

You will also see the XSD in the response body for the OPTIONS request as well appended to the end of the "Allow: " header info.

--------------------------------------------------------

Have fun!

Forum Post: PowerShell HTTP DELETE Function

jnicholson — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:59:00 GMT

Leveraging what jkusky entered for GET and POST, I've created a sample HTTP Delete function for the REST services in Cortex.

The function requires a few parameters that are not listed

1. URI to the "page" your are attempting to DELETE. Example: "http://myISE/storage/volumes/{id}"; where {id} is the instance identifier of the resource you want to delete

Be careful! Using this primitve to delete a resource will not ask "are you sure?" first.

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function Execute-HTTPDeleteCommand()

{

param(

[string]$target = $null

)

$username = "administrator"

$password = "mypass"

$webRequest = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($target)

$webRequest.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = $false

$webRequest.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential -ArgumentList $username, $password

$webRequest.PreAuthenticate = $true

$webRequest.Method = "DELETE"

$requestStream = $webRequest.GetRequestStream()

$requestStream.Close()

[System.Net.WebResponse]$resp = $webRequest.GetResponse();

$rs = $resp.GetResponseStream();

[System.IO.StreamReader]$sr = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader -argumentList $rs;

[string]$results = $sr.ReadToEnd();

return $results;

}

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To use the function, add the required variables and call the function

-------------------------------------------------------------

$URL = http://myise/storage/volumes/12345

Execute-HTTPDeleteCommand $URL

This will delete Volume with GUID = 12345

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Have fun!

Forum Post: PowerShell HTTP PUT Function

jnicholson — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:56:00 GMT

Leveraging what jkusky entered for GET and POST, I've created a sample HTTP Put function for the REST services in Cortex.

The function requires a few parameters that are not listed

1. URL to the "page" your are attempting to PUT to. example: http://myISE/storage/volumes/{id}; where {id} is the instance identifier of the resource you want to change/modify.

2. Data you are attempting to modify listed as query strings within the URL: "size=<newsize>&name=<newname>"

Keep in mind that for HTTP PUT, you need to append the query string(s) to the end of the URI with the "?" delimiter, like this:

URI = "http://<ip>/storage/volumes/12345?name=Bob01&size=50"

As opposed to POST, which requires the query strings to be in the "request body" of the request.

---------------------------------------------------

function Execute-HTTPPutCommand()

{

param(

[string]$target = $null

)

$username = "administrator"

$password = "mypass"

$webRequest = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($target)

$webRequest.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = $false

$webRequest.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential -ArgumentList $username, $password

$webRequest.PreAuthenticate = $true

$webRequest.Method = "PUT"

$requestStream = $webRequest.GetRequestStream()

$requestStream.Close()

[System.Net.WebResponse]$resp = $webRequest.GetResponse();

$rs = $resp.GetResponseStream();

[System.IO.StreamReader]$sr = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader -argumentList $rs;

[string]$results = $sr.ReadToEnd();

return $results;

}

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To use the function, add the required variables and call the function

-------------------------------------------------------------

$URL = "http://myise/storage/volumes/12345?name=TEST02" (This will change the /volumes/12345 name to "TEST02")

Execute-HTTPPutCommand $URL

--------------------------------------------------------

Have fun!

Forum Post: New iseperf.pl Performance Collection and Logging Script Released

Joel Grace — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:18:00 GMT

I just posted the latest version of the iseperf.pl performance logging script to the "Files" page. The biggest change is the ability to control whether the script captures the LUN performance once, or loops continuously on a predetermined interval (set it and forget it). The script can be found here:

http://cortexdeveloper.com/cortexdeveloper/m/communitycode/30.aspx

-Joel

File: iseperf.pl - Perl Script to Log ISE LUN Performance

Joel Grace — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:39:00 GMT

iseperf.pl is a Perl script and associated configuration file, that can be used to quickly and easily retrieve LUN performance data from Emprise 5000's, and store in .csv format to be used for custom graphs, reports, and trend analysis.

iseperf.conf - Configuration File

This file is used to store the list of ISE's that will be queried for performance data. The format looks like this:

<config>
   <systems>
      <system1>
         <serial>11111111</serial>
         <ip>1.1.1.1</ip>
         <username>user</username>
         <password>pass</password>
      </system1>
      <system2>
         <serial>11111112</serial>
         <ip>1.1.1.2</ip>
         <username>user</username>
         <password>pass</password>
      </system2>
   </systems>
   <options>
      <loop>no</loop>
      <loop_interval>5</loop_interval>
   </options>
</config>

The primary tag is a user-defined friendly name of the ISE (in this case it's system1 and system2). Within these tags lies the necessary information to connect to the ISE, Serial Number, IP Address, Username, and Password. Obviously you'll want to protect this file, or the script could easily be modified to prompt for the sensitive information. The configuration file also provides options for controller whether the script runs once per call, or loops infinitely based on a polling interval (loop_interval). For instance, if you schedule the script with cron or MS Task Scheduler, you would want to set the <loop> option to no. If you want to kick off the script and let it run on it's own for an extended period of time, just set the <loop> tag to 'yes' and then set the <loop_interval> to the number of seconds between each collection.

iseperf.pl - Performance Logging Script

The script can be run on just about any system that supports Perl. Each run of the script produces a single output of the performance statistics for the LUN's on the ISE being queried. This could be useful for current point in time analysis, but it's mainly designed so that it can be run at user-defined intervals to collect performance statistics. Windows Task Scheduler, UNIX/Linux cron, or modifying the script with a loop statement and sleep intervals are all viable options. The script will generate two files, a iseperf.csv for performance data, and iseperf.log for logging any failed attempts to query an ISE/Emprise 5000. The script queries each ISE/Emprise 5000 listed in the configuration file through the Cortex RESTful API. The Emprise 5000 replies back with the performance data in XML format which is then parsed and written to the .csv file. Here's a sample of the .csv output:

Date,ISE Serial,Volume,Read Percentage,Queue Depth,Queue Depth Max,Average Transfer Size,Read Latency Max,Write Latency Max,Read Latency,Write Latency,Total IOPS,Read IOPS,Write IOPS,Total Kbps,Read Kbps,Write Kbps
7/9/10 23:50,11111111,demojg1,79,8,9,4096,35,16,3,0,3233,2563,670,12932,10252,2680
7/9/10 23:51,11111111,demojg1,79,8,9,4096,167,29,3,0,2651,2096,555,10604,8384,2220
7/9/10 23:52,11111111,demojg1,81,8,9,4096,257,54,3,0,2542,2065,477,10168,8260,1908
7/9/10 23:53,11111111,demojg1,81,8,9,4096,257,67,3,0,2774,2255,519,11096,9020,2076
7/9/10 23:54,11111111,demojg1,79,8,9,4096,257,98,3,0,2803,2234,569,11212,8936,2276
7/9/10 23:55,11111111,demojg1,79,8,9,4096,264,98,3,0,2859,2284,575,11436,9136,2300

The date field in the output is in a format that's friendly to MS Excel, so you can easily sort the data and generate graphs, charts, etc.

To run the script on Linux, simply open a shell and 'cd' to the directory containing the script, and run it './iseperf.pl'

To run the script on Windows, first ensure Perl is installed (ActiveState Perl or Cygwin are great options), open DOS and navigate to the folder containing the script, and run 'perl iseperf.pl'

Have fun!

-Joel

Forum Post: REST API description from the author - Roy T. Fielding

jnicholson — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:53:00 GMT

Greetings Everyone,

I am posting a link to a very interesting and excellent article/blog from the author of REST, Roy Fielding. Please take a look when you get the chance.

Jeff

http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven

Forum Post: ISEview-HD was approved by Apple

toddburkey — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:25:00 GMT

Sorry...forgot to let everyone know that the iPad version of ISEview was approved by Apple on June 1. Expect the matching ISEview iPhone version in a week or so. The previous post on the iPad version covers the iphone version as well.

Even unannounced, the iPad app was downloaded over 100 times in the first week (49 in the US, 9 in Japan, 8 in Canada, and the rest from literally all over the world.)

Steve Sicola was even showing off his 3G version of the iPad in India, New Zealand, and other spots on the other side of the world while using ISEview to access ISEs in MN and CO real-time via both VPN to internal systems and normal internet to our external accessible ISE. Neat.

-Todd

Forum Post: PowerShell HTTP Post Function

jkusky — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:12:00 GMT

I created a sample HTTP Post function for the REST services in Cortex.

The function requires a few parameters that are not listed

1. URL to the page your are attempting to post to. example: "http://myISE/storage/allocations"

2. Data you are attempting to post example listed as $post in the function: "volume=6001F930010310000195000200000000&arrayendpoint=2000001F930010A4&hostendpoint=100000051ED4469C&lun=2"

---------------------------------------------------

function Execute-HTTPPostCommand()

{

param(

[string]$target = $null

)

$username = "administrator"

$password = "mypass"

$webRequest = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($target)

$webRequest.ContentType = "text/html"

$PostStr = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($Post)

$webrequest.ContentLength = $PostStr.Length

$webRequest.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = $false

$webRequest.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential -ArgumentList $username, $password

$webRequest.PreAuthenticate = $true

$webRequest.Method = "POST"

$requestStream = $webRequest.GetRequestStream()

$requestStream.Write($PostStr, 0,$PostStr.length)

$requestStream.Close()

[System.Net.WebResponse]$resp = $webRequest.GetResponse();

$rs = $resp.GetResponseStream();

[System.IO.StreamReader]$sr = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader -argumentList $rs;

[string]$results = $sr.ReadToEnd();

return $results;

}

------------------------------------------------------

To use the function, add the required variables and call the function

-------------------------------------------------------------

$post = "volume=6001F930010310000195000200000000&arrayendpoint=2000001F930010A4&hostendpoint=100000051ED4469C&lun=2"

$URL = "http://myise/storage/allocations"

Execute-HTTPPostCommand $URL

--------------------------------------------------------

Enjoy

Forum Post: iPad ISEview-HD

toddburkey — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:28:00 GMT

Just a quick update.

Our original iPad submission to the appstore was turned down because it was too similar to the iPhone version. We are in the process of re-submitting a revised iPad ISEview (1.2) that has the following changes made over the original iPhone version:

Rotation of screen between Landscape and Portrait in all views is now supported
Recent Log Message Viewer was added
Scroll ISE/MRC performance bars up and see Volume, Host, and Host HBA performance information
Disk View Graphical Analyzer (similar to the STAT5000 disks screen but with a few extra tidbits of info.)
Improvement in data retrieval speed
Show overall ISE status at the top menu (where you see all the ISEs)
Support for tcpproxy (i.e. accessing and ISE through a firewall). From an app point of view this just means we support IP address followed by port (as in 10.10.10.20:9002)
Password support (shows the default password on the screen and lets you type in a new one when adding the ISE.)

Actually the new iPhone version has many of these same features, just smaller text and a few less fields displayed for performance information. Once the iPad version is accepted we will upgrade the iPhone version.

-Todd