Petter Reinholdtsen: SOAP based webservice from Dell to check server support status
A few years ago I wrote
how
to extract support status for your Dell and HP servers. Recently
I have learned from colleges here at the
University of Oslo that Dell have
made this even easier, by providing a SOAP based web service. Given
the service tag, one can now query the Dell servers and get machine
readable information about the support status. This perl code
demonstrate how to do it:
use strict;
use warnings;
use SOAP::Lite;
use Data::Dumper;
my $GUID = '11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111';
my $App = 'test';
my $servicetag = $ARGV[0] or die "Please supply a servicetag. $!\n";
my ($deal, $latest, @dates);
my $s = SOAP::Lite
-> uri('http://support.dell.com/WebServices/')
-> on_action( sub join '', @_ )
-> proxy('http://xserv.dell.com/services/assetservice.asmx')
;
my $a = $s->GetAssetInformation(
SOAP::Data->name('guid')->value($GUID)->type(''),
SOAP::Data->name('applicationName')->value($App)->type(''),
SOAP::Data->name('serviceTags')->value($servicetag)->type(''),
);
print Dumper($a -> result) ;
The output can look like this:
$VAR1 =
'Asset' =>
'Entitlements' =>
'EntitlementData' => [
'EntitlementType' => 'Expired',
'EndDate' => '2009-07-29T00:00:00',
'Provider' => '',
'StartDate' => '2006-07-29T00:00:00',
'DaysLeft' => '0'
,
'EntitlementType' => 'Expired',
'EndDate' => '2009-07-29T00:00:00',
'Provider' => '',
'StartDate' => '2006-07-29T00:00:00',
'DaysLeft' => '0'
,
'EntitlementType' => 'Expired',
'EndDate' => '2007-07-29T00:00:00',
'Provider' => '',
'StartDate' => '2006-07-29T00:00:00',
'DaysLeft' => '0'
]
,
'AssetHeaderData' =>
'SystemModel' => 'GX620',
'ServiceTag' => '8DSGD2J',
'SystemShipDate' => '2006-07-29T19:00:00-05:00',
'Buid' => '2323',
'Region' => 'Europe',
'SystemID' => 'PLX_GX620',
'SystemType' => 'OptiPlex'
;
I have not been able to find any documentation from Dell about this
service outside the
inline
documentation, and according to
one
comment it can have stability issues, but it is a lot better than
scraping HTML pages. :)
Wonder if HP and other server vendors have a similar service. If
you know of one, drop me an email. :)
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