Gracious monks,
For those who don't deal with Dell, I'll start by explaining that Dell puts an "asset tag" on all of their machines. You can find this tag several places on the outside of the case as well as tucked away neatly in the BIOS. We use this for tracking desktops through out our company.

I have come a cross a vbScript that takes a hostname and queries it for it's asset tag number. Incredibly useful, unfortunately it is not perl and it only takes a single host name at a time, through a dialog box. Great for a quick checkup, bad for tracking fifty or so machines.

My Point
Does anyone know of a way to gather info from the bios (in particular, the asset tag recorded there)?

Thanks,
-p

In reply to grab dell asset tag from bios by plunger

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