From: Petter Reinholdtsen
+use LWP::Simple; use POSIX; use WWW::Mechanize; @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ sub get_support_info { if ( $model =~ m/^Dell / ) { # fetch website from Dell support - my $url = "http://support.euro.dell.com/support/topics/topic.aspx/emea/shared/support/my_systems_info/no/details?c=no&cs=nodhs1&l=no&s=dhs&ServiceTag=$serial"; + my $url = "http://support.euro.dell.com/support/topics/topic.aspx/emea/shared/support/my_systems_info/no/details?c=no&cs=nodhs1&l=no&s=dhs&ServiceTag=$serial"; my $webpage = get($url); return undef unless ($webpage); @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ sub get_support_info { my @lines = split(/\n/, $webpage); foreach my $line (@lines) { next unless ($line =~ m/Beskrivelse/); - $line =~ s/<[^>]+?>/;/gm; + $line =~ s/<[^>]+?>/;/gm; $line =~ m%;(\d{2})/(\d{2})/(\d{4});+(\d{2})/(\d{2})/(\d{4});%g; my $start = "$3-$1-$2"; my $end = "$6-$4-$5"; @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ sub get_support_info { # Next step is screen scraping my $content = $mech->content(); - $content =~ s/<[^>]+?>/;/gm; + $content =~ s/<[^>]+?>/;/gm; $content =~ s/\s+/ /gm; $content =~ s/;\s*;/;;/gm; $content =~ s/;[\s;]+/;/gm; @@ -106,11 +106,11 @@ sub get_support_info { } } elsif ( $model =~ m/^IBM / ) { my ($producttype) = $model =~ m/.*-\[(.{4}).+\]-/; - if ($producttype && $serial) { + if ($producttype && $serial) { my $content = - get("http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/warranty?action=warranty&brandind=5000008&Submit=Submit&type=$producttype&serial=$serial"); + get("http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/warranty?action=warranty&brandind=5000008&Submit=Submit&type=$producttype&serial=$serial"); if ($content) { - $content =~ s/<[^>]+?>/;/gm; + $content =~ s/<[^>]+?>/;/gm; $content =~ s/\s+/ /gm; $content =~ s/;\s*;/;;/gm; $content =~ s/;[\s;]+/;/gm; @@ -128,19 +128,19 @@ sub get_support_info { } return $str; } -+
Here are some examples on how to use the function, using fake serial numbers. The information passed in as arguments are fetched from dmidecode.
-+print get_support_info("hp.host", "HP ProLiant BL460c G1", "1234567890" "447707-B21"); print get_support_info("dell.host", "Dell Inc. PowerEdge 2950", "1234567"); print get_support_info("ibm.host", "IBM eserver xSeries 345 -[867061X]-", "1234567"); -+
I would recommend this approach for tracking support contracts for everyone with more than a new computers to administer. :)