Retrieve Dell Service Tag Programmatically

Question

Is it possible through use of Coldfusion, Asp, Asp.net, PHP, vbScript or JavaScript to obtain the Dell Service Tag.  I am trying to write a web app to do inventory.  Problem is there are many devices (mostly optiplex) where the user has removed the sticker with the service tag info.  Most of our devices are reimaged upon deployment with our standard image and so the service tag info is not accessible from windows as it was when shipped from Dell. So I was hoping to be able to write a script of some sort that would retrieve this info.   Any help is appreciated.   Thanks, -Jones

speedstep · Answer

Belarc Belmanage does this remotely onto an IIS SQL database that can have reports run against it via cold fusion or some other app.http://www.belarc.com

dspent · Answer

yeah but belarc isn't free.  in fact it is outrageously expensive.

obirt · Answer

You can retrieve the service tag through WMI or running a script that runs wmic on the remote computer and saves the results somewhere.

there's a host of DMI/SMBIOS retreival programs, I use dmidecode but that is a non-windows code base.

dspent · Answer

sorry I didn't reply sooner.   I did find out how to do this.  First I download Scriptomatic v2 which is a microsoft tool that writes WMI scripts for you.  You choose the WMI class you want and it writes the code in vbscript, python, perl or jscript.   It allows you to run the script from within the app against the local machine, remote machine and a list of machines imported from a text file.  It also outputs to cmd line, excel csv file, text file HTML and XML.  It is a very very cool app.  The link to download it is below in case anyone wants it.   With it I was able to grab about 600 dell tags from about 800 devices putting a huge dent in the amount of work ahead of me with my inventory project.   -Jones   :::::Scriptomatic v2 Link::::: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=09dfc342-648b-4119-b7eb-783b0f7d1178&DisplayLang=en

mikee611 · Answer

Can someone give me a sample of their script to retrieve dell service tags? My email is mbagatt@buchalter.com Message Edited by mikee611 on 02-23-2006 01:47 PM

mikee611 · Answer

Yes, I have that issue too.  I need to able to retreive all service tags of all Dell computers within the network.  Please help.

dspent · Answer

download the app from microsoft... The link is in my post above.

It will write the script for you. All you need to do is select the WMI class you want (I believe its Win32_Bios). Once you select the class, the script pops up in the window and from there you can run it, copy it, modify it etc.....

Very good help file comes with it... You don't need to understand scripting, vb, perl, WMI etc.....If you can use a mouse, it IS actually that simple.

-Jones

mikee611 · Answer

Is there a way to put all the service tags on a log file?

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