Connect-OVMgmt always displays the Terms of Use banner

[dmoroney]

Expected Behavior

There doesn't seem to be a way to turn off the Terms of Use banner. Is there a parameter or workaround for turning off or redirecting that output?

Actual Behavior

VERBOSE: [NEWOBJECT] Called from: Connect-OVMgmt
VERBOSE: [CONNECT-OVMGMT] Using default authentication directory: 'LOCAL'
This management appliance is a company owned asset and provided for the exclusive use of authorized personnel. Unauthorized use or abuse of this system may lead to corrective action including termination, civil and/or criminal penalties.

Use...requires prior authorization...

Steps to reproduce

$Connection = Connect-OVMgmt -Hostname ******** -Credential $pscredential -LoginAcknowledge -Verbose

Version Information

$PSLibraryVersion
appliance_name_hidden        LibraryVersion Path
----------------                    -------------- ----
ApplianceVersion: 8.40.00.480384.00 8.30.3534.1611 path_to\PowerShell\Modules\HPEOneView.830\8.30.3534.1611

$PSVersionTable
Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.3.7
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.3.7
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.19045
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}       
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

[ChrisLynchHPE]

This is not a bug, rather by design. If you do not want a message to be displayed, use the Set-OVLoginMessage to clear the value.

[dmoroney]

The interactive message makes sense. Unauthorized changing of the banner is a violation of company policy. The current work with HPEOneView.830 is to build a process that will perform automated tasks. I'll have to see how things work when I add the discovery tool as a scheduled command. If there's a workaround to redirect this output, then that would be okay.

[ChrisLynchHPE]

The message isn't put into the pipeline, so you should not have any issues with automating pipeline processing when the login message is presented.

[dmoroney]

I found the workaround to suppress the output from write-host in the .psm1.

./something.ps1 6> $null | put output into the pipeline

[ChrisLynchHPE]

Sure, but keep in mind that the text is for display only. It is not passed to the pipeline, so it will not cause an issue with anyone trying to process output.