Querying Dell Docking Station Models and Populating an Index in ControlUp

A user asked if there was a way to query connected Dell docking station models and add them to an index. Another user suggested using a PowerShell script and adding a custom action to populate the index with the information. Three different scripts were also provided for potential use.

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Is anyone aware of a way to query connected dell docking station models to pull to an index? I do not see any built-in scripts that contain this functionality or if its even possible outside of display peripherals.

Hi Kaleb,

If you can get a PowerShell script to capture this, it is entirely possible to add a Custom Action and populate it to a custom data index

Wonder if any of these would work:

Get-PnPDevice | Where-Object { $.FriendlyName -like "DellDock" -or $.FriendlyName -like "WD15" -or $.FriendlyName -like "WD19" -or $.FriendlyName -like "WD22*" } | Select-Object FriendlyName, Status, DeviceID

Get-CimInstance -Namespace "root/dcim/sysman" -ClassName DCIM_Chassis |

Where-Object { $_.Name -match "WD19" -or $_.Model -match "Dock" -or $_.CreationClassName -match "Dock" } |

Select-Object ElementName, Model, Manufacturer, SerialNumber, Tag, Version

Get-CimInstance -Namespace "root\dell\sysinv" -ClassName dell_softwareidentity |

Where-Object { $_.elementname -like "Docking Station" } |

Select-Object elementname, versionstring |

Sort-Object elementname

Thanks Abel,

Ill will do some testing on this. I really appreciate the assistance!

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