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  13      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  21       <div class="title">SOAP based webservice from Dell to check server support status</div>
  22       <div class="date"> 1st June 2012</div>
  23       <div class="body"><p>A few years ago I wrote
  24 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Checking_server_hardware_support_status_for_Dell__HP_and_IBM_servers.html">how
  25 to extract support status</a> for your Dell and HP servers.  Recently
  26 I have learned from colleges here at the
  27 <a href="http://www.uio.no/">University of Oslo</a> that Dell have
  28 made this even easier, by providing a SOAP based web service.  Given
  29 the service tag, one can now query the Dell servers and get machine
  30 readable information about the support status.  This perl code
  31 demonstrate how to do it:</p>
  32
  33 <p><pre>
  34 use strict;
  35 use warnings;
  36 use SOAP::Lite;
  37 use Data::Dumper;
  38 my $GUID = '11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111';
  39 my $App = 'test';
  40 my $servicetag = $ARGV[0] or die "Please supply a servicetag. $!\n";
  41 my ($deal, $latest, @dates);
  42 my $s = SOAP::Lite
  43     -> uri('http://support.dell.com/WebServices/')
  44     -> on_action( sub { join '', @_ } )
  45     -> proxy('http://xserv.dell.com/services/assetservice.asmx')
  46     ;
  47 my $a = $s->GetAssetInformation(
  48     SOAP::Data->name('guid')->value($GUID)->type(''),
  49     SOAP::Data->name('applicationName')->value($App)->type(''),
  50     SOAP::Data->name('serviceTags')->value($servicetag)->type(''),
  51 );
  52 print Dumper($a -> result) ;
  53 </pre></p>
  54
  55 <p>The output can look like this:</p>
  56
  57 <p><pre>
  58 $VAR1 = {
  59           'Asset' => {
  60                      'Entitlements' => {
  61                                        'EntitlementData' => [
  62                                                             {
  63                                                               'EntitlementType' => 'Expired',
  64                                                               'EndDate' => '2009-07-29T00:00:00',
  65                                                               'Provider' => '',
  66                                                               'StartDate' => '2006-07-29T00:00:00',
  67                                                               'DaysLeft' => '0'
  68                                                             },
  69                                                             {
  70                                                               'EntitlementType' => 'Expired',
  71                                                               'EndDate' => '2009-07-29T00:00:00',
  72                                                               'Provider' => '',
  73                                                               'StartDate' => '2006-07-29T00:00:00',
  74                                                               'DaysLeft' => '0'
  75                                                             },
  76                                                             {
  77                                                               'EntitlementType' => 'Expired',
  78                                                               'EndDate' => '2007-07-29T00:00:00',
  79                                                               'Provider' => '',
  80                                                               'StartDate' => '2006-07-29T00:00:00',
  81                                                               'DaysLeft' => '0'
  82                                                             }
  83                                                           ]
  84                                      },
  85                      'AssetHeaderData' => {
  86                                           'SystemModel' => 'GX620',
  87                                           'ServiceTag' => '8DSGD2J',
  88                                           'SystemShipDate' => '2006-07-29T19:00:00-05:00',
  89                                           'Buid' => '2323',
  90                                           'Region' => 'Europe',
  91                                           'SystemID' => 'PLX_GX620',
  92                                           'SystemType' => 'OptiPlex'
  93                                         }
  94                    }
  95         };
  96 </pre></p>
  97
  98 <p>I have not been able to find any documentation from Dell about this
  99 service outside the
 100 <a href="http://xserv.dell.com/services/assetservice.asmx?op=GetAssetInformation">inline
 101 documentation</a>, and according to
 102 <a href="http://iboyd.net/index.php/2012/02/14/updated-dell-warranty-information-script/">one
 103 comment</a> it can have stability issues, but it is a lot better than
 104 scraping HTML pages. :)</p>
 105
 106 <p>Wonder if HP and other server vendors have a similar service.  If
 107 you know of one, drop me an email. :)</p>
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