Need to maintain an accurate inventory of servers in datacenter. Dell servers have a Service Tag that is required when calling Dell support, and it makes sense to include this in the server list.
Here’s how to retrieve the Service Tag from the system BIOS. This uses WMI, and therefore works only on Windows servers.
‘Check for Arguments
If WScript.Arguments.Count = 0 Then
Wscript.Echo “Usage: GetDesllSvcTag.vbs computer1 [computer2] [computer3] ……”
WScript.Quit
End If
For Each strComputer In wscript.Arguments
Set objWMIService = GetObject(“winmgmts:” _ & “{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\” & strComputer & “\root\cimv2”)
Set colSMBIOS = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ (“Select * from Win32_SystemEnclosure”)
For Each objSMBIOS in colSMBIOS
Wscript.Echo strComputer & “: ” & objSMBIOS.SerialNumber
Next
Next
For a Windows PowerShell version, see Get Dell Service Tag Using PowerShell.
The production script I use queries Active Directory, using ADSI, for all computers running Windows Server 2003/2000, gets their OS, Service Pack, and date of computer account creation, then connects to each server using the above method to get the Dell service tag (and other info, such as number of CPUs, RAM, etc.).
To enable others to dynamically generate this list on demand, the script is web-enabled and generates a better formatted web page with the required details (with the ability to click on a server name and drill down to gather further info such as IP configuration, drive space utilization/free space, etc.). The drill-down’s required because:
- ou can’t put everything in a list on the first page, it would be unreadable – endless scrolling
- Would involve too many WMI calls to each server after initial Active Directory query, and slow down the list generation to a crawl
Thank you VERY much for posting this script! I’ve been trying to find a way to get the service tags of all the machines on the network for a couple of hours now – this script is exactly what I was looking for!
Works for PCs as well as servers!
Works for PCs as well as servers!
sorry to sound stupid, but how do you run this script? Thank you for the help in advance.
Copy the code to notepad and save it with a vbs extension. When saving, make sure the “Save As Type:” is set to “All Files” and not “Text Documents (txt)”.
Recommend running scripts using cscript – if it’s not your default engine you can use:
cscript myscriptname.vbs
If you have problems running it (I did) remove the ” _” from lines 8 and 9.
Here’s another take on getting the service tag. This one asks for the host name and gives the resulting service tag in a popup.
On Error Resume Next
Dim strComputer
strComputer = InputBox(“Enter the name of DELL Computer:”)
Set objWMIService = GetObject(“winmgmts:” & “{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\” & strComputer & “\root\cimv2”)
Set colSMBIOS = objWMIService.ExecQuery (“Select * from Win32_SystemEnclosure”)
For Each objSMBIOS in colSMBIOS
MsgBox strComputer & “: ” & objSMBIOS.SerialNumber
Next
how would you modify this to get serial number of say HP or IBM machines
here’s the code that I use to process IBM/LENOVO gear…it’s a snippet of larger program so you might have to do some cleanup.
Set objWMIService = GetObject(“winmgmts:\\” & strComputer & “\root\CIMV2”)
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery( _
“SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem”,,48)
For Each objItem in colItems
mfg = objItem.Manufacturer
model = objItem.Model ‘Model
sysname = LCase(objItem.Name) ‘System Name
systype = objItem.SystemType ‘System Type
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery( _
“SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystemProduct”,,48)
For Each objItem in colItems
machver = objItem.Version ‘Version
Next
IF (StrComp(mfg,”LENOVO”) = 0) Then
sysmodel = Mid(model,1,4)
systype = Mid(model,4,3)
End If
Wscript.Echo(“Vendor: ” + mfg + vbCrLf + “host: ” + sysname + vbCrLf + “OS: ” + osname + vbCrLf + “OS Ver: ” + osver + vbCrLf + “Make: ” + machver + vbCrLf + “Type: ” + systype + vbCrLf + “Model: ” + sysmodel + vbCrLf + “Serial #: ” + serialno)
Hey dude i tried ur scripts the first one is not working for me incase if u can write a script which generates the service tag along with machine name in my domain it would be wonderfull:)
– Brijendra Shukla
thanks for the script. handy little tool.
is there a way to have the output dumped to a CSV file?
To save the output as a CSV file:
1- change the line:
Wscript.Echo strComputer & “: ” & objSMBIOS.SerialNumber
to:
Wscript.Echo strComputer & “,” & objSMBIOS.SerialNumber
2- run the script as:
cscript myscriptname.vbs > results.csv
Ronaldo Radunz
Could this script be reversed, so I could query the Dell service tag to get the computer name?
Easier method (atleast for me) :). Open a command prompt type in:
Wmic bios get serialnumber.
This could be used with remote machines as well.
wmic /user:administrator /node:machinename bios get serialnumber
@vizworld
Thanks for the quick and easy command!
I’ve been using this one for a long time, it’s so easy!
Wmic bios get serialnumber.
thanks for saving me a trip to the client site!
PERFECT TY
Its pretty good.