# HPE iLOrest Overview

HPE iLOrest is an
open source
and free of charge command-line interface that allows you to
manage Hewlett Packard Enterprise products that
take advantage of the Redfish RESTful API.

With iLOrest, you can manage HPE Gen9 servers running
iLO 4 version 2.10 and later, HPE Gen10 servers running
HPE iLO 5 version 1.20 and later and HPE Gen11 servers
running HPE iLO 6 firmware 1.05 and later.
You can install the tool on your computer for remote use or you
can install the tool locally on a server with a Windows OS or Linux OS.

Distribution packages are available from
GitHub and from PyPi.

In addition to using the tool interactively to execute individual commands,
you can create scripts to automate tasks.
A debug mode is also available to troubleshoot or to get
a better understanding of the Redfish protocol.

The iLOrest version presented in this portal is 7.0.0.0

NOTE
The HPE iLOrest tool is sometime referred as **the RESTful Interface Tool**
in this document.