Morning Michael,
Well I never thought I would see my little PowerShell project on this forum, the ISAM-PowerShell module is my 'little baby' as it were.
It hasn't had many updates over the past year due to being brought off our ISAM project and working on something different, but still actively adding functionality to our in-house version.
As you may well have noticed, those modules are no where near complete - it was just a place I was able to store my scripts until I released them upon the wide world, in-fact in our Organisation, we use this module on a daily basis.
For instance, we utilize this module to update the configuration of our Reverse Proxies - with a little scripting around the modules cmdlets you can use this to keep configuration consistent within different ISAM environments, as well as many other things.
The module, as you may well have already seen, utilizes the REST WebServices that ISAM provides, there is a reem of functionality here that can be added to the module.
If there is something specific that you are looking to do, please let me know and I can add the relevant functionality to the module.
As for Kristof's message, I guess your choice of scripting language is based on your experience in the field. When working with TAM 6.1 we utilized windows batch jobs to automate any of our tasks, since we were running on server 2003, so PowerShell seemed the like the logical next iteration.
Kind regards,
Dave Hall
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David Hall
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-11-2019 11:48 AM
From: Michael Boey*****
Subject: ISAM automation: Is using Powershell a good idea?
Hi community,
Since we have decided to move forward with ISAM after the successful PoCs, we are currently working out the next steps.
One of these steps includes the automation of ISAM tasks as much as possible (not to say: completely) right from the start. It seems that different resources exist already to help us in that, e.g. :
https://github.com/IBM-Security/isam-ansible-roles
https://github.com/Dramz0r/ISAM-PowerShell
It seems that Python is the preferred IBM way of doing things, since their repo contains a lot of Python examples. However, we were wondering if other companies use different scripting languages for their ISAM automation (and we specifically are interested in Powershell experience). We would like to avoid choosing a scripting language which impedes our agility.
Any experience in the community with Powershell as the automation scripting language for ISAM?
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Michael
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