Dell Command | Warranty User’s Guide
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Contents 1 Dell Command | Warranty ..............................................................................................................................4 Supported Operating Systems ........................................................................................................................................ 4 Supported Client Operating Systems........................................................................................................................
1 Dell Command | Warranty The Dell Command | Warranty can be installed as a stand-alone application or part of the Dell Command | Integration Suite for System Center on systems running Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager, and Microsoft System Center Current Branch.
• Windows Server 2012 R2 • Windows Server 2012 Dell Command | Warranty 5
2 Installing Dell Command | Warranty Dell Command | Warranty can be installed either as a stand-alone application, or as part of the Dell Command | Integration Suite for System Center on systems running Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. NOTE: You must be logged in as the system administrator to install Dell Command | Warranty.
3 Launching Dell Command | Warranty Launch Dell Command | Warranty using a command line tool. 1 Open a command prompt. 2 Navigate to the folder in which you have placed the Dell Command | Warranty files. For example, type: cd C:\Program Files\Dell\Command . . . 3 Type the name of the executable file. For example, type: DellWarranty-CLI.
4 Configuring Dell Command | Warranty Before you use Dell Command | Warranty, do the following: 1 Launch Dell Command | Warranty. For more information, see Launching Dell Command | Warranty. 2 Enter DellWarranty-CLI.exe /H to display usage. NOTE: For Dell Command | Warranty to function you must provide an /InputFile or an /InputCfgMgrConnectionString parameter. See CLI Options.
5 Retrieving Warranty Information 1 If the system on which Dell Command | Warranty is installed has access to Configuration Manager and is able to connect to the internet (including through proxy): a Launch Dell Command | Warranty. b For more information, see Launching Dell Command | Warranty. Configure Dell Command | Warranty. c For more information, see Configuring Dell Command | Warranty.
A Command Line Interface (CLI) Options CLI Option Name CLI Option Abbreviation Description Syntax /Help /H Display usage (this information). DellWarranty-CLI.exe /H /Usage /U Display usage (this information). DellWarranty-CLI.exe /U /InputFile /I NOTE: For the Warranty tool to function, you must provide at least one of the two input flags, /I or /Ics. DellWarranty-CLI.exe / I=C:\FileName.csv The full path to an input .csv file of service tags (C:\FileName.
is %USERPROFILE%\[Warranty dbname].mdf, while the log file is %USERPROFILE%\[Waranty dbname]_log.ldf. The %USERPROFILE% variable is typically C:\Users\[username]\ on a Windows 10 system. Once the database is created, the /Ocs command creates two additional tables: Dell_Asset and Dell_AssetEntitlement. These tables are used to store warranty data that is cleared first, and then populated from your /InputFile or / InputCfgMgrConnectionString servicetags.
The parameter is optional.
B Warranty Output Database Schema The following data dictionary is created when you use the /Ocs switch. Sample command: DellWarranty-CLI.exe /I=C:\Users\[username]\Documents\FileName.csv /Ocs="Data Source=(localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB;Database=[dbname];Integrated Security=true;" NOTE: You supply the variable [dbname] within the /Ocs switch parameters as illustrated by the above. Table 1.
Dell_AssetEntitlements LastUpdated datetime 8 1 Dell_AssetEntitlements LastRetrieval nvarchar 100 1 14 Warranty Output Database Schema
