Change BIOS setting

First create an instance of Rest or Redfish Object using the RestObject or RedfishObject class respectively. The class constructor takes iLO hostname/ ip address, iLO login username and password as arguments. The class also initializes a login session, gets systems resources and message registries.

Rest Object creation:

REST_OBJ = RestObject(iLO_host, login_account, login_password)

Redfish Object creation:

REDFISH_OBJ = RedfishObject(iLO_host, login_account, login_password)

Example 3: Change BIOS setting

This is an example from RestfulApiExamples.py that can be used to change system bios settings. The example in RedfishApiExamples.py is similar except that a rest object is replaced by a redfish object.

The method ex3_change_bios_setting takes an instance of rest object, bios property of interest, the new value for the bios property and bios password as arguments.

def ex3_change_bios_setting(restobj, bios_property, property_value, login_password,
                            bios_password):

Find and get the BIOS settings URI from the systems resources collection.

instances = restobj.search_for_type("Bios.")

For the BIOS settings URI/s prepare the request body with only the BIOS property we want to change and perform the PATCH request.

for instance in instances:
   body = {bios_property: property_value}
   response = restobj.rest_patch(instance["href"], body, \
                                    optionalpassword=bios_password)
   restobj.error_handler(response)

A successful PATCH response will set the BIOS property value to the new value provided in BIOS settings, however the BIOS setting changes will get affected only after a system reset or reboot.