Integrating BMC BSA, vRO and PowerShell (for Windows VMs)

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If you're using BSA for in guest Windows operations then integration with vRO gives great flexibility to complete post provisioning tasks including updating NICs, disk actions and configuration of the OS.

BSA job using PowerShell (this is a simple update to IPaddress of a known NIC):
Create the job as normal. To call PowerShell commands the following format works. I haven't found a useful way to line-wrap the commands yet.

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nexec -e cmd /c `echo . | PowerShell.exe -InputFormat none -ExecutionPolicy bypass \" netsh interface ip set address name= $name source=static addr= $ip_addr mask= $mask \" `

Things to consider - escape special characters; ensure that the command is wrapped in the ` character; give a space before using variables else they do not get interpreted.

Hope this helps