Did you eventually get an answer to this question or figure out the issue?

Am using Powershell with Compellent for the first time too and having the same problems with connection... might be worth mentioning am connecting as a "reporter" user.

Many Thanks.

Kathy

Hello Scott, and Kathy,

It is not possible to run commands through the Enterprise Manager using PowerShell or the Storage Center Command Set. What specifically are you trying to do through Enterprise Manager?

Kathy, What kind of errors are you seeing when trying to log in using a "reporter" user?

I guess it's worth mentioning, I only have reporter rights, but I would have thought this would still allow me to run reports and the get-sc* commands.

Hi CompellentSanAdmin,

Thanks for your response.  I was looking to use Powershell to run reports really, making use of the get-sc* commands mostly.  

However, I am yet to establish how to connect to the SAN?  I ran the command:

Get-SCConnection -HostName $scname -User $scuser -Password $scpassword

(the variable for the hostname was the ip address of the Enterprise Mngmnt Svr)

but am met with the error message:

Get-SCConnection : Connection failed

At C:\Scripts\Compellent-GetSCConnection.ps1:5 char:1

+ Get-SCConnection -HostName $scname -User $scuser -Password $scpassword #-Default

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

   + CategoryInfo          : OpenError: (172.16.100.18:String) [Get-SCConnection], Exception

   + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ConnectionFailure,SCCommandSet.Commands.SCConnectionGet

I load the snap-in successfully however.

So I guess the question is, should the host name be the Enterprise Management Server or something else?

Kind Regards - Kathy.

Kaff_H,

Once you invoke the PowerShell command prompt, here is an example of a script that I use to connect to my array(s) and run whatever PowerShell SC commands:

$user = Read-Host -Prompt "Please enter username"

$pass = Read-Host -AsSecureString -Prompt "Please enter password"

Write-Host ""

Write-Host ""

Get-SCConnection -HostName compellent01.domain.net -User $user -Password $pass -Save compellent01

Get-SCConnection -HostName compellent02.domain.net -User $user -Password $pass -Save compellent02

Get-SCConnection -HostName compellent03.domain.net -User $user -Password $pass -Save compellent03

Write-Host ""

Write-Host "Press any key to continue..." -foregroundcolor "yellow"

$x = $host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown")

Once that script completes, you will be connected to any/all of the arrays that you specify in the Get-Connection lines above (add as many as you need).  Next, you will need to specify the connection that you want to run the command(s) against by invoking something like:

Get-SCConnection -Name compellent01 -Default -DestinationDefault

Then run whatever get-sc* command you want and it will run against the compellent01.domain.net array until you specify another one.

@DellLarryBoy

Thanks so much for your response.

I just managed to find an article this morning online showing a script with the "-save" switch in it.  Realised that I had to use the IP address of the controller also, not enterprise manager, and eventually got connected!!

Your script  is perfect though and would have helped me heaps!

I am not sure though how the $X variable is of use??  Confused me a little.

Very much appreciated.

Kath

BTW, if you are not already using the Storage Center Command Set 7.x, I highly recommend that you download it from the KC and start using it.  It adds several new commands that I have found to be very useful.

FYI...

$x = $host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown")

In this line we’re using PowerShell’s automatic variable $host (which is actually an instance of the .NET Framework class System.Management.Automation.Host) and the ReadKey method. (Which is actually a method of the RawUI property, which is a property of the UI property, which is a property of $host. And the leg bone’s connected to the knee bone, the knee bone’s connected to the ankle bone, the ….) The ReadKey method enables us to get information about the key that has just been pressed. Of course, in this case the only information we care about is the fact that a key has been pressed. Therefore, we pass ReadKey two parameters:

NoEcho. This prevents any information from appearing on screen when the user presses a key. If you leave out this parameter the pressed key will be echoed back to the screen.

IncludeKeyDown. This tells the script to continue as soon as a key has been pressed; that means the script will continue even if the user presses and holds a key down. If you’d prefer to wait until the user has released the key, then use this parameter instead: IncludeKeyUp.

This information is taken from the following article:  technet.microsoft.com/.../ff730938.aspx

Let me know if you have any other questions.

The Compellent.StorageCenter.PSSnapin.dll says 6.1.0.3 when I look at the Properties - Details Tab.   I guess I don't have the latest version then?

As you know the # sign is used to comment out lines of scripts. By default the sample script has an extra # sign in this line:

$connection = Get-SCConnection -HostName $schost -User $user -Password $pass #-Save $schost -Default

You will need to remove this in order to get the script to work properly.

run the command Get-SCCommandSetVersion to see what version you have.