Getting Started
To start using As Built Report, you will need to perform the following;
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- Check you are running Windows PowerShell 5.1 or later;
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- Open a Windows PowerShell console;
$PSVersionTable
- Open a Windows PowerShell console;
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- 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
- e.g. VMware PowerCLI, Cisco UCS PowerTool, Pure Storage PowerShell SDK;
- Install any 3rd party PowerShell modules / cmdlets. Please check the installation pre-requisites for each AsBuiltReport module.
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- 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 the complete library of report modules;
- For an online installation, install AsBuiltReport modules using the PowerShell Gallery;
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- 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
- To install individual report modules;
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- 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.
- Save the required modules to a specified folder
- For an offline installation, perform the following steps from a machine with internet connectivity;
If you would like more to learn more about working with PowerShell modules,
be sure to check out my Extending Powershell course on Pluralsight.
be sure to check out my Extending Powershell course on Pluralsight.