LANDesk – Adding Apple Warranty Data to Inventory

Posted at November 3, 2008

Virtually any data can be added to the LANDesk inventory for a given machine by adding values to the file /Library/Application Support/LANDesk/data/ldscan.core.data.plist. By default, this file will be empty (if it exists at all).


LANDesk Warranty Data
Adding Apple warranty data is just a matter of looking up the machines serial number against Apple’s warranty records and adding the results with defaults commands.

Download the script here, it shouldn’t need any modification unless you want something to display differently. The code shown below might not work properly because of line breaks.

#!/bin/bash
# mac_warranty.sh
# Description: Looks up Apple warranty info for this computer and adds to LANDesk custom
data
#
# Patrick Gallagher
# http://macadmincorner.com
# Modified 01/11/2009
 
defaultsCommand="/usr/bin/defaults"
plistFile="/Library/Application Support/LANDesk/data/ldscan.core.data"
tmpFile="/tmp/warranty.txt"
serialNum=`system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep "Serial Number" | awk -F ': ' {'print
$2'} 2>/dev/null`
app="AppleCare Protection Plan"
 
[[ -n "${serialNum}" ]] && WarrantyInfo=`curl -k -s
"https://selfsolve.apple.com/Warranty.do?serialNumber=${serialNum}&country=USA&
fullCountryName=United%20States" | awk '{gsub(/\",\"/,"\n");print}' | awk
'{gsub(/\":\"/,":");print}' > ${tmpFile}`
 
# Functions
 
getWarranty()
{
	grep ^"${1}" ${tmpFile} | awk -F ':' {'print $2'}
}
 
getPHCovDesc()
{
	grep ^"${1}" ${tmpFile} | awk -F ':' {'print $2'}
}
 
getCovDesc()
{
	grep ^"${1}" ${tmpFile} | awk -F ':' {'print $2'}
}
 
InvalidSerial=`grep "serial number provided is invalid" "${tmpFile}"`
 
if [[ -e "${tmpFile}" && -z "${InvalidSerial}" ]] ; then
	# Is there phone coverage available?
	phCoverageDescription=`getPHCovDesc PHCOVERAGE_DESC`
	if [ "$phCoverageDescription" == "${app}" ]; then
		${defaultsCommand} write "$plistFile" "Custom Data - Mac - Warranty - Phone
Coverage" "Available - Call 800-800-2775"
	else
		${defaultsCommand} write "$plistFile" "Custom Data - Mac - Warranty - Phone
Coverage" "${phCoverageDescription}"
	fi
 
	# Type of coverage
	coverageDescription=`getCovDesc COVERAGE_DESC`
	${defaultsCommand} write "$plistFile" "Custom Data - Mac - Warranty - Coverage
Description" "${coverageDescription}"
 
	# Warranty Expires...
	WarrantyExpires=`getWarranty COVERAGE_DATE`
	if [ "${WarrantyExpires}" == "" ]; then 
		${defaultsCommand} write "$plistFile" "Custom Data - Mac - Warranty - Warranty
Expires" "Expired"
	else
	${defaultsCommand} write "$plistFile" "Custom Data - Mac - Warranty - Warranty Expires"
"${WarrantyExpires}"
	fi
 
	# Serial Number
	${defaultsCommand} write "$plistFile" "Custom Data - Mac - Warranty - Serial Number"
"${serialNum}"
 
	# Purchase Date....
	purchaseDate=`getWarranty PURCHASE_DATE`
	${defaultsCommand} write "$plistFile" "Custom Data - Mac - Warranty - Purchase Date"
"${purchaseDate}"
 
else
	[[ -z "${serialNum}" ]] && ${defaultsCommand} write $plistFile "Custom Data - Mac -
Serial Number" "Error getting serial, Logic board replaced?"
	[[ -n "${InvalidSerial}" ]] && ${defaultsCommand} write $plistFile "Custom Data - Mac -
Warranty Expires" "Not Found"
fi
 
# echos to the console
defaults read "${plistFile}"
exit 0

This script is based on this one from Scott Russell at Notre Dame.

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