Users Guide

Dell Warranty Utility

The Dell Warranty Info Tool helps to retrieve the Dell Warranty Information for a list of systems. The systems are

specified with their service tags.

You can use DCIP Warranty Information Utility to perform the following tasks:

• Collect warranty information of Dell client systems from Dell servers

• Export service-tags from Configuration Manager database to a CSV File

• Copy warranty information to a database from CSV file

• Generate reports

NOTE: Enable the SQL Server Reporting Services to build Warranty Reports. For more information, see the

Configuration Manager documentation at technet.microsoft.com.

Launching The Warranty Utility

To launch the Warranty Utility:

On systems running Windows Server 2008 or older:

Click Start → All Programs → Dell → Client Integration Pack for Microsoft ConfigMgr 2012 → Warranty Utility.

On systems running Windows Server 2012:

Launch the Start screen, Dell → Client Integration Pack for Microsoft ConfigMgr 2012 → Warranty Utility.

Configuring The Warranty Utility

Before you run the Warranty utility, configure the following parameters to gather the warranty information.

1. Launch the Warranty Utility.

For more information, see Launching The Warranty Utility.

2. Enter Dell.WarrantyInfo.exe setup_config to store the configuration in the Windows Registry. For

more information, see Saving The Configuration To The Registry.

NOTE: To save the configuration information into a file, enter Dell.WarrantyInfo.exe

setup_config config_file=

. For more information, see Saving The Configuration

To A File.

3. Configure the following parameters:

NOTE: To skip a certain setup parameters like Proxy Domain , press enter key without any input.

a) Proxy User Domain of the server (if set).

b) Proxy User Name of the server (if set).

c) Proxy Password of the server (if set).

d) Proxy server address (if set).

NOTE: Enter the proxy server as http://proxyserver<:

portnumber

>/ where the port number is optional.

e) Desired output format - .csv, .xml, or database (.db).