Users Guide

Retrieving Warranty Information

1 If the system on which Dell Command | Warranty is installed has access to Conguration Manager and is able to connect to the

internet (including through proxy):

a Launch Dell Command | Warranty.

For more information, see Launching Dell Command | Warranty.

b Congure Dell Command | Warranty.

For more information, see Conguring Dell Command | Warranty.

c To retrieve the warranty information through the Conguration Manager database:

• Use the command: DellWarranty-CLI.exe /ICS=”Data Source=[host];Database=[ Conguration Manager dbname];Integrated

Security=true;”

Connection string to the Conguration Manager database:

"Data Source=[host];Database=[ Conguration Manager dbname];Integrated Security=true;")

"Data Source=[host];Database=[ Conguration Manager dbname];User id=[username];Password=[userpwd]"

See CLI Options for further information.

The warranty information of the Dell client systems is retrieved and saved as a .csv le in the Default: [%ProgramData%\Dell

\Warranty\][WarrantyOutput_[yyyyMMddhhmmss].csv folder.

NOTE

: The le is saved as WarrantyInformation_

YYYY

.xml (where YYYY is the year, MM is the

month and DD is the day).

2 If the system on which Dell Command | Warranty is installed does not have access to Conguration Manager, but is able to connect to

the internet (including through proxy):

a Launch Dell Command | Warranty.

For more information, see Launching Dell Command | Warranty.

b Create a .csv le containing the service tags.

c To retrieve the warranty information for the service tags saved in the .csv le you created in the previous step:

• Enter the following command: DellWarranty-CLI.exe /I=C:\FileName.csv.

The warranty information of the Dell client systems is retrieved and saved as a .csv le in the Default: [ProgramData\Dell

\Warranty\][WarrantyOutput_[yyyyMMddhhmmss].csv folder. To override the default path, use the command line option /Ocs.

See

CLI Options.

NOTE

: The le is saved as WarrantyOutput_[

yyyMMddhhmmss

].csv (where yyyy is the year, MM is the

month, dd is the day, hh is the hour, mm is the minute, and ss is the second).

NOTE: The default name can also be overwritten when you use the command line option /Ocs. Also, if

invalid tags are found in the request le, a %ProgramData%\Dell\Warranty\]

[WarrantyerrorOutput_[yyyyMMddhhmmss].csv) le is created.

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