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This is Topic: Dell Servers Following are the News Items published under this Topic.

Dell Server Error Messages I attempted to post the following table to the Dell Support Forums, but they don't seem to appreciate all the extra HTML required. Reposting it here for your perusal: Read more...     comments? |  Permalink |  Mail this... | Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Dell Power Solutions The August Edition of Dell's "Power Solutions" (The Magazine for Direct Enterprise Solutions) is available (entire edition, pdf) and (individual articles, html). Excellent article on OpenManage IT Assistant (.pdf file). Of course, dead tree edition is available for free, but there are a few extra articles only available online.      comments? |  Permalink |  Mail this... | Thursday, September 15, 2005

Query Dell Service Tag via WMI Need to find a Dell Service Tag number? Here's a quick VBS script to pull that info "across the wire" - remotely, that is... First, this basic script will get it from "localhost" (please note the second line strComputer = ".") '------START/Don't include this line------------ ' on error resume next strComputer = "." Set objWMIservice = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") set colitems = objWMIservice.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_BIOS",,48) For each objitem in colitems Wscript.echo "Dell Service Tag: " & objitem.serialnumber Next ' '------END/Don't include this line--------------- --------------- If you want a pop-up box to input the name of a remote host, you can modify the second line to:     strComputer=InputBox ("Enter the computer name of the server you'd like to query for Service Tag") Both versions above can be run like this: "cscript servicetag.vbs" --------------- If you want to use the command line, you can change the second line to:     strComputer=WScript.Arguments.Item(0) ...and run like this instead: "cscript servicetag.vbs machinename" --------------- If running this against multiple machines (and redirecting output to a text file), you can change the output line (Wscript.echo) to:     Wscript.echo strComputer & ": " & objitem.serialnumber ...and run like this: C:\myscripts\> cscript servicetag.vbs machine1 >> outputfile.txt C:\myscripts\> cscript servicetag.vbs machine2 >> outputfile.txt C:\myscripts\> cscript servicetag.vbs machine3 >> outputfile.txt C:\myscripts\> cscript servicetag.vbs machine4 >> outputfile.txt --------------- Note that this does *NOT* work across domain boundaries - if you want to check a box on a different domain, map a drive to "C$" first.      comments? |  Permalink |  Mail this... | Thursday, September 15, 2005

Dell releases Open Manage Server Administrator (OMSA) v.4.4 Dell released OMSA ver 4.4 this week - Download here - 104MB. Stuff that's good - now supports Windows 2003 Service Packs. I'd like to say I'm glad it now supports x64 versions of 2003 server, but that'd just be pretentious.      comments? |  Permalink |  Mail this... | Wednesday, June 08, 2005