Alan Renouf has posted a PowerShell Module and a video with instructions on how to install and use it for VMware vShield. He shows clearly how to easily assess and report on current settings (i.e. “Get-vShieldSecurityGroup | Select -ExpandProperty Member”) as well as modify them.

Now I had the Rest API details I knew I could easily write some PowerShell code in the form of an advanced function to work with the API, the first piece of code I wrote was a generic function which allowed me to GET, PUT, DELETE and POST to a Restful API. I know PowerShell v3 will include cmdlets for this but I didn’t want to wait or add a dependency on something which wasn’t available as yet.

With this completed the rest of the advanced functions were easily created, it was just a case of sending the correct parameter to my function and the correct URL and my results would be returned.

vShield PowerShell Module from Alan Renouf on Vimeo.