HPEwarranty

Find warranty and support contract information for HPE hardware using PowerShell

Requirements

• Internet facing computer
• Selenium PowerShell Module downloaded from the PowerShell Gallery

Installation

To use the script on an Internet facing computer:

1. Install the PowerShell Module called Selenium (https://github.com/adamdriscoll/selenium-powershell) from the PowerShell Gallery:

    PS> install-module Selenium -Scope AllUsers
    PS> Get-module Selenium -Listavailable

Note the location of the installed module. This will depend on the version of PowerShell you have and on the scope chosen above (Allusers/CurrentUser)

2. If you are using PowerShell 7.x and with scope AllUsers, enter the following (adjust as necessary):

    PS> $env:PATH += "C:\Program Files\PowerShell\Modules\Selenium\3.0.1\assemblies\"
    PS> Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\PowerShell\Modules\Selenium\3.0.1\assemblies\WebDriver.dll"

3. Selenium ships with Browser drivers for Chrome, Firefox, Edge. These will probably be out of date for the version of the broswer you have installed. You will need to download a matching driver. For Chrome, install the appropriate driver from https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads, replacing the chromedriver.exe file in the same Selenium install folder, as above.

Example usage

    PS C:\> .\Get-HPEwarranty -Filename serial.csv -verbose

Get the warranty information for all serial numbers in the specified CSV file. Use -Verbose to provide status messages. This will create a new file called serial_new.csv with the HPE warranty information appended to the original objects.

    PS C:\> .\Get-HPEwarranty -Filename serial.csv -verbose -ignore XXX1111XXXX,YYY2222YYYY

Use the -ignore parameter to exclude one or more problematic serial numbers. These will show up in the final report with a suitable message.

    PS C:\> .\Get-HPEwarranty -Filename serial.csv -verbose -ignore C:\Ignore.txt

Use the -ignore parameter to exclude one or more problematic serial numbers from an input text file. These will show up in the final report with a suitable message.