Changing Boot Order With Redfish on Intel® Server M50CYP Product Family

Following Redfish commands can be used to change the boot order of the system remotely. 

CURL command in a Linux* system to read the Redfish API details of a remote system.
Activity requires Python3*, Curl* and jq to be installed in the system. 

1. Use below command to get the system id:

   Command:
   [root@ocsbesrhlrepo01 ~]# curl -k -u username: password https://<ip address> /redfish/v1/Systems -H "content-type:application/json" -X GET |  python3 -m json.tool  

   Output:

   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                    Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
   100   460  100   460    0     0    218      0  0:00:02  0:00:02 --:--:--   218
   {
       "@odata.context": "/redfish/v1/$metadata#ComputerSystemCollection.ComputerSystemCollection",
       "@odata.id": "/redfish/v1/Systems",
       "@odata.type": "#ComputerSystemCollection.ComputerSystemCollection",
       "Name": "Computer System Collection",
       "Members@odata.count": 1,
       "Members": [
           {
               "@odata.id": "/redfish/v1/Systems/............"
           }
       ],
      

2. Check the existing boot options using below command.

   Command:
   [root@ocsbesrhlrepo01 ~]# curl -k -u username: password https://<ip address>/redfish/v1/Systems/............ -H "content-type:application/json" -X GET |  python3 -m json.tool

    

   Output: 

     "BootOrder": [
               "UEFI INTEL SSDSCKKB240G8 PHYH02610986240J ",
               "Enter Setup",
               "Boot Device List",
               "Network Boot",
               "UEFI Internal Shell"

3. Change the boot order using below command. For example, change first the boot device to UEFI Internal Shell. 

   Command:
   curl -k -u username: password https://<ip address>/redfish/v1/Systems/............ -H "content-type:application/json" --data '{"Boot":{"BootSourceOverideEnabled":"Continuous", "BootSourceOverrideTarget":"None", "BootOrder":["UEFI Internal Shell"]}}' -X PATCH |  python3 -m json.tool

4. Restart the system.

   Command:
   curl -k -u username: password https://<ip address>/redfish/v1/Systems/............/Actions/ComputerSystem.Reset -H "content-type:application/json" --data '{"ResetType":"ForceRestart"}' -X POST |  python3 -m json.tool