Installation

Getting Started

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

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

• • • Open a Windows PowerShell console;

      $PSVersionTable

1. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4.  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 -Split ';'

      •  Copy the downloaded module folders to a folder specified in the PSModulePath output.