Redfish cheat sheet

This document is intended to provide a set of example Redfish client commands for OpenBMC usage. This document uses cURL. This document assumes several ids, such as ManagerId, "bmc", and ComputerSystemId, "system". Assuming an id is not correct and any software written to use the Redfish API should not. From the Redfish Specification, DSP0266, "Clients shall not make assumptions about the URIs for the members of a resource collection."

Query Redfish Service Root

export bmc=xx.xx.xx.xx
curl -k https://${bmc}/redfish/v1

---

Establish Redfish connection session

Method 1

export bmc=xx.xx.xx.xx
curl --insecure -X POST -D headers.txt https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/SessionService/Sessions -d    '{"UserName":"root", "Password":"0penBmc"}'

A file, headers.txt, will be created. Find the "X-Auth-Token" in that file. Save it away in an env variable like so:

export bmc_token=<token>

Method 2

export bmc=xx.xx.xx.xx
export token=`curl -k -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST https://${bmc}/login -d '{"username" :  "root", "password" :  "0penBmc"}' | grep token | awk '{print $2;}' | tr -d '"'`
curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/...

Note: Method 2 is used in this document.

---

View Redfish Objects

curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X GET https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/Chassis
curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X GET https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/Managers
curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X GET https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/Systems

---

View sessions

curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/SessionService/Sessions

---

Host power

Host soft power off:

curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X POST https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/Systems/system/Actions/ComputerSystem.Reset -d '{"ResetType": "GracefulShutdown"}'

Host hard power off:

curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X POST https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/Systems/system/Actions/ComputerSystem.Reset -d '{"ResetType": "ForceOff"}'

Host power on:

curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X POST https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/Systems/system/Actions/ComputerSystem.Reset -d '{"ResetType": "On"}'

Reboot Host:

curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X POST https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/Systems/system/Actions/ComputerSystem.Reset -d '{"ResetType": "GracefulRestart"}'

---

BMC reboot

curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X POST https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/Managers/bmc/Actions/Manager.Reset -d '{"ResetType": "GracefulRestart"}'

---

BMC factory reset

Proceed with caution:

curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X POST https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/Managers/bmc/Actions/Manager.ResetToDefaults -d '{"ResetToDefaultsType": "ResetAll"}'

---

Log entry

Display logging entries:

curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X GET https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/Systems/system/LogServices/EventLog/Entries

Delete logging entries:

curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X POST https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/Systems/system/LogServices/EventLog/Actions/LogService.Reset

---

Firmware ApplyTime:

curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X PATCH -d '{"HttpPushUriOptions":{"HttpPushUriApplyTime":{"ApplyTime":"Immediate"}}}' https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/UpdateService

or

curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X PATCH -d '{"HttpPushUriOptions":{"HttpPushUriApplyTime":{"ApplyTime":"OnReset"}}}' https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/UpdateService

---

Firmware update

Firmware update: Note the <image file path> must be a tarball.

uri=$(curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/UpdateService | jq -r ' .HttpPushUri')

curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" -X POST -T <image file path> https://${bmc}${uri}

TFTP Firmware update using TransferProtocol: Note: The <image file path> contains the address of the TFTP service: xx.xx.xx.xx/obmc-phosphor-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxx.static.mtd.tar

curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X POST https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/UpdateService/Actions/UpdateService.SimpleUpdate -d '{"TransferProtocol":"TFTP","ImageURI":"<image file path>"}'

TFTP Firmware update with protocol in ImageURI:

curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X POST https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/UpdateService/Actions/UpdateService.SimpleUpdate -d '{"ImageURI":"tftp://<image file path>"}'

---

Update "root" password

Change password to "0penBmc1":

curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X PATCH -d '{"Password": "0penBmc1"}' https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/AccountService/Accounts/root

---

BIOS firmware boot control

Enter into BIOS setup on boot

curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X PATCH https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/Systems/system -d '{"Boot":{"BootSourceOverrideEnabled": "Continuous","BootSourceOverrideTarget": "BiosSetup"}}'

Fully boot

curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X PATCH https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/Systems/system -d '{"Boot":{"BootSourceOverrideEnabled": "Disabled","BootSourceOverrideTarget": "None"}}'

Change Legacy/EFI selector (valid only if host is based on the x86 CPU)

curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X PATCH https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/Systems/system -d '{"Boot":{"BootSourceOverrideEnabled": "Once","BootSourceOverrideTarget": "None","BootSourceOverrideMode": "UEFI"}}'

---

Enable NTP

Add a NTP Server

curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X PATCH https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/Managers/bmc/NetworkProtocol -d '{"NTP":{"NTPServers":["time.nist.gov"]}}'

Now enable NTP

curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X PATCH https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/Managers/bmc/NetworkProtocol -d '{"NTP":{"ProtocolEnabled": true}}'

---

Disable IPMI

curl -k -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" -X PATCH https://${bmc}/redfish/v1/Managers/bmc/NetworkProtocol -d '{"IPMI":{"ProtocolEnabled": false}}'