HP Systems Insignt Manager – Contract and Warranty SQL Query

Stephen Leuthold — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:53:51 +0000

It was time to renew our warranty contacts with HP and we needed a quick and efficient way to gather and submit all of our HP hardware’s information to our vendor for renewal. The canned “Warranty-Contract – Servers” query is not very useful as there are no serial numbers, product name, product numbers, addresses or contact information in the report. If you try to add the other columns it outputs to separate tables, proving to be a useless report. These other pieces of information are hidden in other views and tables in the Insight database. After much tinkering around and much help from our DBA we came up with the following query (note a new view is required to be created in the DB)…

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SELECT
 UPPER(a.DeviceName) DeviceName ,
 b.IPAddress,
 b.ProductName,
 b.ProductId,
 b.OSVendor,
 b.SerialNumber,
 b.AssetTag,
 b.ROMVersion,
 b.MemorySize,
 b.CPUs,
 -- a.startDate StartDate ,
 -- a.EndDate EndDate ,
 dbo.fn_ConvertDate(a.startDate) StartDate ,
 dbo.fn_ConvertDate(a.EndDate) EndDate ,
 a.ExpirationStatus ,
 a.responseTime  ResponseTime,
 a.coverageWindow  Coverage,
 a.serviceLevel ServiceLevel,
 c.CSInfo,
 c.PCName,
 c.address1,
 c.address2,
 c.city,
 c.state,
 c.postalCode,
 c.country,
 c.custTimeZone,
 c.PCPhone,
 c.PCEmail
 
FROM
      dbo.R_WarrantyContract a
LEFT JOIN
      (
            SELECT
                  DeviceKey,
                  IPAddress,
                  ProductName,
                  ProductId,
                  OSVendor,
                  SerialNumber,
                  AssetTag,
                  ROMVersion,
                  MemorySize,
                  NumberOfCPU CPUs
            FROM
                  dbo.R_Inventory
            GROUP BY
                  DeviceKey,
                  IPAddress,
                  ProductName,
                  ProductId,
                  OSVendor,
                  SerialNumber,
                  AssetTag,
                  ROMVersion,
                  MemorySize,
                  NumberOfCPU       
      ) b
      ON 
      a.DeviceKey = b.DeviceKey
     
LEFT JOIN
 (
  SELECT
   DeviceKey,
   CSInfo,
   address1,
   address2,
   city,
   state,
   postalCode,
   country,
   custTimeZone,
   PCName,
   PCPhone,
   PCEmail
  FROM
            EXT_CustSiteNContactsInfo
 ) c
 ON
 a.DeviceKey = c.DeviceKey
ORDER BY
      c.CSInfo

I had to create a new “mickey mouse” view do to time constraints, in which the above query selects from.

SELECT     dbo.devices.Name AS DeviceName, dbo.devices.DeviceKey, SysCustomer.companyName AS CSInfo, SysCustomer.address1, SysCustomer.address2,
                      SysCustomer.city, SysCustomer.state, SysCustomer.postalCode, SysCustomer.country, SysCustomer.custTimeZone, ISNULL(PC.contactSalutation, N'')
                      + N' ' + ISNULL(PC.contactFirstName, N'') + N' ' + ISNULL(PC.contactLastName, N'') AS PCName, PC.contactPhone AS PCPhone, PC.contactEmail AS PCEmail,
                      ISNULL(SC.contactSalutation, N'') + N' ' + ISNULL(SC.contactFirstName, N'') + N' ' + ISNULL(SC.contactLastName, N'') AS SCName, SC.contactPhone AS SCPhone,
                      SC.contactEmail AS SCEmail, ISNULL(PSC.contactSalutation, N'') + N' ' + ISNULL(PSC.contactFirstName, N'') + N' ' + ISNULL(PSC.contactLastName, N'') AS PSCName,
                      PSC.contactPhone AS PSCPhone, PSC.contactEmail AS PSCEmail, - 1 AS SnapshotID
FROM         dbo.devices INNER JOIN
                          (SELECT     dbo.SIM_SysCustomer.companyName, dbo.SIM_SysCustomer.address1, dbo.SIM_SysCustomer.address2, dbo.SIM_SysCustomer.city,
                                                   dbo.SIM_SysCustomer.state, dbo.SIM_SysCustomer.postalCode, dbo.SIM_SysCustomer.country, dbo.SIM_SysCustomer.custTimeZone,
                                                   dbo.deviceAssocObjects.nodeID AS SysNodeId
                            FROM          dbo.SIM_SysCustomer INNER JOIN
                                                   dbo.deviceAssocObjects ON dbo.deviceAssocObjects.assocObjectLUID = dbo.SIM_SysCustomer.customerLuid INNER JOIN
                                                   dbo.devices AS devices_4 ON dbo.deviceAssocObjects.nodeID = devices_4.nodeLuid) AS SysCustomer ON
                      dbo.devices.nodeLuid = SysCustomer.SysNodeId LEFT OUTER JOIN
                          (SELECT     dbo.SIM_SysContact.contactSalutation, dbo.SIM_SysContact.contactFirstName, dbo.SIM_SysContact.contactLastName,
                                                   dbo.SIM_SysContact.contactPhone, dbo.SIM_SysContact.contactEmail, deviceAssocObjects_3.nodeID AS PCNodeId
                            FROM          dbo.SIM_SysContact INNER JOIN
                                                   dbo.deviceAssocObjects AS deviceAssocObjects_3 ON deviceAssocObjects_3.assocObjectLUID = dbo.SIM_SysContact.contactLuid AND
                                                   deviceAssocObjects_3.assocType = 0 INNER JOIN
                                                   dbo.devices AS devices_3 ON deviceAssocObjects_3.nodeID = devices_3.nodeLuid) AS PC ON PC.PCNodeId = dbo.devices.nodeLuid LEFT OUTER JOIN
                          (SELECT     SIM_SysContact_2.contactSalutation, SIM_SysContact_2.contactFirstName, SIM_SysContact_2.contactLastName, SIM_SysContact_2.contactPhone,
                                                   SIM_SysContact_2.contactEmail, deviceAssocObjects_2.nodeID AS PCNodeId
                            FROM          dbo.SIM_SysContact AS SIM_SysContact_2 INNER JOIN
                                                   dbo.deviceAssocObjects AS deviceAssocObjects_2 ON deviceAssocObjects_2.assocObjectLUID = SIM_SysContact_2.contactLuid AND
                                                   deviceAssocObjects_2.assocType = 1 INNER JOIN
                                                   dbo.devices AS devices_2 ON deviceAssocObjects_2.nodeID = devices_2.nodeLuid) AS SC ON SC.PCNodeId = dbo.devices.nodeLuid LEFT OUTER JOIN
                          (SELECT     SIM_SysContact_1.contactSalutation, SIM_SysContact_1.contactFirstName, SIM_SysContact_1.contactLastName, SIM_SysContact_1.contactPhone,
                                                   SIM_SysContact_1.contactEmail, deviceAssocObjects_1.nodeID AS PCNodeId
                            FROM          dbo.SIM_SysContact AS SIM_SysContact_1 INNER JOIN
                                                   dbo.deviceAssocObjects AS deviceAssocObjects_1 ON deviceAssocObjects_1.assocObjectLUID = SIM_SysContact_1.contactLuid AND
                                                   deviceAssocObjects_1.assocType = 2 INNER JOIN
                                                   dbo.devices AS devices_1 ON deviceAssocObjects_1.nodeID = devices_1.nodeLuid) AS PSC ON PSC.PCNodeId = dbo.devices.nodeLuid

I ran the query in MS SQL Server Management Studio, exported the results to excel and shot it off to my vender. I might clean this up and just put it all in a single view someday. When I do I’ll update this post.

UPDATE: 6-23-2010
You will need the following function added to your DB before running…

/****** Object: UserDefinedFunction [dbo].[fn_ConvertDate] Script Date: 06/22/2010 15:21:56 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
 
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
 
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[fn_ConvertDate] (@Datetime BIGINT)
RETURNS DATETIME
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @LocalTimeOffset BIGINT;
DECLARE @AdjustedLocalDatetime BIGINT;
SELECT @LocalTimeOffset = DATEDIFF(SECOND,GETDATE(),GETUTCDATE())
SELECT @AdjustedLocalDatetime = (@Datetime – @LocalTimeOffset)/1000
RETURN (SELECT DATEADD(SECOND,@AdjustedLocalDatetime, CAST(’1970-01-01 00:00:00′ AS datetime)))
END;
GO

Alienware 2880×900 DLP monitor

Stephen Leuthold — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:53:20 +0000

Gizmodo published an article today for Alienware’s prototype 2880×900 monitor that was introduced at CES 2008. This monitor utilizes a DLP projector lit by LED’s and boasts a estimated 0.2ms response time, which should make this an excellent gaming monitor. Alienware demoed the display with a relatively new shooter from EA dubbed Crysis. This beast is 3 feet wide and beats the heck out of combining a bunch of monitors together side-by-side, unless you want 4+ feet of gaming goodness.

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Alienware’s prototype looks clean! Albeit a hefty price tag when available. Dell purchased Alienware back in March of ’06.
Check out all the commotion on Gizmodo!

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