Dell Service Tag

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You can get the Dell Service Tag from a machine remotely. You don't have to look up Service Tag from an inventory list and you don't have to go try to read the number off the tiny sticker. It turns out that Dell puts the Service Code into BIOS. You can query the BIOS for the Service Tag.

Linux

dmidecode -s system-serial-number
2M1XDB1

Some systems such as Red Hat and CentOS don't support the '-s' option so these system may need to do something a little tricky (it will probably print twice):

dmidecode | grep --extended-regexp Serial[[:space:]]Number:[[:space:]]*[A-Z0-9]{7}$
                Serial Number: 2M1XDB1
                Serial Number: 2M1XDB1

Windows

In Windows you can use a tiny VBScript to query the WMI for the Service Tag.

Save this script as `service_tag.vbs`:

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 

Start up a Command Prompt (cmd.exe) and run the `service_tag.vbs` script to get something like this:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop>service_tag.vbs 127.0.0.1
127.0.0.1: 2M1XDB1