blog/data/2012-06-06-hardware-support.txt

   1 Title: Web service to look up HP and Dell computer hardware support status
   2 Tags: english, nuug
   3 Date: 2012-06-06 23:15
   4
   5 <p>A few days ago
   6 <a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html">I
   7 reported how to get</a> the support status out of Dell using an
   8 unofficial and undocumented SOAP API, which I since have found out was
   9 <a href="http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2012-February/045959.html">discovered
  10 by Daniel De Marco in february</a>.  Combined with my web scraping
  11 code for HP, Dell and IBM
  12 <a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Checking_server_hardware_support_status_for_Dell__HP_and_IBM_servers.html">from
  13 2009</a>, I got inspired and wrote
  14 <a href="https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/">a
  15 web service</a> based on Scraperwiki to make it easy to look up the
  16 support status and get a machine readable result back.</p>
  17
  18 <p>This is what it look like at the moment when asking for the JSON
  19 output:
  20
  21 <blockquote><pre>
  22 % GET <a href="https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/?format=json&vendor=Dell&servicetag=2v1xwn1">https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/?format=json&vendor=Dell&servicetag=2v1xwn1</a>
  23 supportstatus({"servicetag": "2v1xwn1", "warrantyend": "2013-11-24", "shipped": "2010-11-24", "scrapestamputc": "2012-06-06T20:26:56.965847", "scrapedurl": "http://143.166.84.118/services/assetservice.asmx?WSDL", "vendor": "Dell", "productid": ""})
  24 %
  25 </pre></blockquote>
  26
  27 <p>It currently support Dell and HP, and I am hoping for help to add
  28 support for other vendors.  The python source is available on
  29 Scraperwiki and I welcome help with adding more features.</p>