X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/c15f88fb7e89f54560862f34ffb78834dc8d1091..b2d421ba5300f9db1648a7d38a79acffc656a85d:/blog/archive/2012/06/06.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2012/06/06.rss b/blog/archive/2012/06/06.rss index ef7cf13222..b7d4ac436d 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2012/06/06.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2012/06/06.rss @@ -28,8 +28,9 @@ github</a>, og en kan rapportere tilbakemeldinger og forslag til forbedringer der (eller via epost og twitter for de som ønsker det).</p> -<p>Det eneste jeg virkelig savnet i veilederen var omtale av w3cs -stjerneklassifisering av åpne datakilder, som jeg tror ville være +<p>Det eneste jeg virkelig savnet i veilederen var omtale av +<a href="http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html">w3cs +stjerneklassifisering</a> av åpne datakilder, som jeg tror ville være nyttige mentale knagger for de som vurderer å publisere sin informasjon på som åpne data. Jeg har <a href="https://github.com/difi/veileder-opnedata/issues/1">rapportert @@ -44,5 +45,98 @@ med får en kopi.</p> + + SOAP based webservice from Dell to check server support status + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html + Fri, 1 Jun 2012 15:20:00 +0200 + <p>A few years ago I wrote +<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Checking_server_hardware_support_status_for_Dell__HP_and_IBM_servers.html">how +to extract support status</a> for your Dell and HP servers. Recently +I have learned from colleges here at the +<a href="http://www.uio.no/">University of Oslo</a> 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:</p> + +<p><pre> +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($a -> result) ; +</pre></p> + +<p>The output can look like this:</p> + +<p><pre> +$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' + } + } + }; +</pre></p> + +<p>I have not been able to find any documentation from Dell about this +service outside the +<a href="http://xserv.dell.com/services/assetservice.asmx?op=GetAssetInformation">inline +documentation</a>, and according to +<a href="http://iboyd.net/index.php/2012/02/14/updated-dell-warranty-information-script/">one +comment</a> it can have stability issues, but it is a lot better than +scraping HTML pages. :)</p> + +<p>Wonder if HP and other server vendors have a similar service. If +you know of one, drop me an email. :)</p> + + +