Practices Guide

Lifecycle Controller Integration―Best Practices Specification

Additionally, increasing the allotted maximum envelope size and timeout can also increase

performance.

winrm set winrm/config @{MaxEnvelopeSizekb="150"}

winrm set winrm/config @{MaxTimeoutms ="60000"}

Other optional WinRM configuration commands are listed below for convenience. To get the current

WinRM configuration settings, execute the following command.

winrm g winrm/config

By default, the client computer requires encrypted network traffic. To allow the client computer to

request unencrypted traffic, execute the following command:

winrm s winrm/config/Client @{AllowUnencrypted="true"}

TrustedHosts is an array that specifies the list of remote computers that are trusted. Other computers

in a workgroup or computers in a different domain should be added to this list.

Note: The computers in the TrustedHosts list are not authenticated.

Execute the following command to allow all computers to be included in TrustedHosts.

winrm s winrm/config/Client @{TrustedHosts="*"}

Basic authentication is a scheme in which the user name and password are sent in clear text to the

server or proxy. This method is the least secure method of authentication. The default is True.

Execute the following command to set client computer to use Basic authentication.

winrm s winrm/config/Client/Auth @{Basic="true"}

1.4 Feature Discovery Procedure

There are four steps recommended to determining the feature set on a given system.

1) Interop namespace – registered profile advertisement

a. winrm enumerate “cimv2/CIM_RegisteredProfile?__cimnamespace=root/interop" -

r:https://IPADDRESS/wsman -u:username -p:password -SkipCNcheck -SkipCAcheck -

encoding:utf-8 -a:basic -format:pretty

b. The output from above will provide the RegisteredVersion of each supported profile on

the system. The RegisteredVersion field can be used to determine the profile’s feature

set. See Section 1.4 for more information.

2) Capability properties on views (NIC example)

a. winrm enumerate "cimv2/root/dcim/DCIM_NICCapabilities" -

r:https://IPADDRESS/wsman -u:username -p:password -SkipCNcheck -SkipCAcheck -

encoding:utf-8 -a:basic -format:pretty

b. The output from above will provide the available properties of each view.

3) Capability Attributes (RAID example)