Installation - As Built Report

Getting Started

To start using As Built Report, you will need to perform the following;

1. Check you are running Windows PowerShell 5.1 or later;

- - Open a Windows PowerShell console;
```
$PSVersionTable
```

1. Install any 3rd party PowerShell modules / cmdlets. Please check the installation pre-requisites for each AsBuiltReport module.
  - e.g. VMware PowerCLI, Cisco UCS PowerTool, Pure Storage PowerShell SDK;
```
Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI
Install-Module -Name Cisco.UCS.Core
Install-Module -Name Cisco.UCSManager
Install-Module -Name PureStoragePowerShellSDK
```

1. For an online installation, install AsBuiltReport modules using the PowerShell Gallery;
  - To install the complete library of report modules;
```
Install-Module -Name AsBuiltReport
```

To install individual report modules;

Find-Module -Name AsBuiltReport.* -Repository PSGallery
Install-Module -Name AsBuiltReport.Vendor.Product
e.g. Install-Module -Name AsBuiltReport.VMware.vSphere

1. For an offline installation, perform the following steps from a machine with internet connectivity;
  - Save the required modules to a specified folder
```
Save-Module -Name AsBuiltReport.VMware.vSphere -Path 'C:\Path\To\Specified\Folder'
```
  - Copy the downloaded module folders to a location that can be made accessible to the offline system.
    e.g. USB Flash Drive, Internal File Share etc.
  - On the offline system, open a PowerShell command window and run the following command to determine the PowerShell Module Path
```
$env:PSModulePath
```
  - Copy the downloaded module folders to a folder specified in the PSModulePath output.