How to Install and Uninstall redfishtool Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "redfishtool" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install redfishtool on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                redfishtool
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "redfishtool" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall redfishtool on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                redfishtool
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the redfishtool package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: redfishtool
Architecture: all
Version: 1.1.0-3
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian OpenStack
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 340
Depends: python3-requests, python3:any
Filename: pool/universe/r/redfishtool/redfishtool_1.1.0-3_all.deb
Size: 45876
MD5sum: f1fae59f1e5ab6c6e62a364602003d8e
SHA1: a61e3eea269f176db30c73118222dd917b62073b
SHA256: 40cddb209b37194d7e53e57a81cdaa97d92d4240b95735a97d7ade0f60c236f2
SHA512: 83094354974338dfc5486a5543ca57362b26547f61fae0a9360d49e2792b7f3b3189849695aad8478abad4e4d7e0cc387d26d45b433490c1465ef17b7b9429fa
Homepage: https://github.com/DMTF/Redfishtool
Description-en: redfish command-line client
Redfishtool is a commandline tool that implements the client side of the
Redfish RESTful API for Data Center Hardware Management.
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Redfish is the new RESTful API for hardware management defined by the DMTF
Scalable Platform Management Forum (SPMF). It provides a modern, secure,
multi-node, extendable interface for doing hardware management. The initial
release included hardware inventory, server power-on/off/reset, reading power
draw, setting power limits, reading sensors such as fans, read/write of ID
LEDs, asset tags, and went beyond IPMI in functionality to include inventory
of processors, storage, Ethernet controllers, and total memory. New Redfish
extensions have now been added to the spec and include firmware update, BIOS
config, memory inventory, direct attached storage control, and the list grows.
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redfishtool makes it simple to use the Redfish API from a BASH script or
interactively from a client command shell.
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While other generic HTTP clients such as Linux curl can send and receive
Redfish requests, redfishtool goes well beyond these generic HTTP clients by
automatically handling many of the hypermedia and Redfish-specific protocol
aspects of the Redfish API that require a client to often execute multiple
queries to a redfish service to walk the hypermedia links from the redfish
root down to the detailed URI of a specific resource (eg Processor-2 of
Blade-4 in a computer blade system). Specifically, redfishtool provides the
following functions over curl:
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* implements Redfish Session Authentication as well as HTTP Basic Auth
* walks the Redfish schema following strict interoperpbility processors...]
to find the targeted instance based on Id, UUID, URL or other
attributes
* handles GETs for collections that are returned in multiple pieces-requiring
client to read in a loop until the full collection is returned
* handles ETag and If-Match headers when PATCHing a resource to write
properties
* implements many common set or action operations with simple commandline
syntax (eg server reset, setting LEDs, assetTag, powerLimits, etc)
* negotiates the latest redfish protocol version between client and service
(demonstrating the proper way to do this)
* can read specific properties of a resource, or expand collections to
include all members of the collection expanded
* supports adding and deleting users, and common Redfish account service
operations
* For debug, provides multiple levels of verbose output to add descriptive
headers, and show what HTTP requests are being executed
* For debug, includes multiple levels of status display showing HTTP status
codes and headers returned and sent
* For easy parsing, outputs all responses in JSON format unless verbose or
status debug options were specified
Description-md5: 6872accca554298597fdc86d168c0904