The Gears Inside My Head

As I sit here I am frequently being annoyed by a nasty little redirect Trojan that "someone" who used my computer picked up.  I am extremely careful, and very cautious about who uses my PC.  Each of my kids has their own PC, as does my wife.  No one outside of my immediate family uses my PC.  So that leaves either myself or my wife. It doesn't really matter and I'm not blaming anyone.  In fact my every-day operating system is Centos Linux so this is little more than an occasional annoyance for me.  It doesn't help that I'm so irritated with Microsoft these days that I only use Windows when and IF I have to.  That boils down to about three programs.  Everything else is on Linux. The Linux side works fine, it's just this Swiss-Cheese OS named Windows that's any issue.  Anyway, I could go on for hours about the various issues I have with Microsoft, but I digress. So I am documenting what I have found so that if anyone else with this issue ...

For any of you that use SAN products from Tegile, they have had a REST API available since 2014 to access the SAN controllers, but it's never been really useful.  They tell me that this will be changing and they will actually have some commandlets available soon. The user guide for the API is written from a PERL viewpoint and all the examples are in PERL.  That's great except that I use very little PERL in my day-to-day life. I decided to try and convert to PowerShell and see what I could see.  There are a number of examples of using REST API via PowerShell around the net.  After trying variations of a number of them I would up with the code below.  It will pull out the Zebi version information from the array. It's still very limited as to what you can do, but it's a start.  The full list of commands available are in the REST API user guide over at the Tegile support site. This script is functional but not pretty.  It was basically just proving...