Programmatically interact with the Broadcom Product Lifecycle Portal

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Customers can use the Broadcom Product Lifecycle portal to search for products across the seven Broadcom Software Divisions and view their current support status: Supported, Unsupported, End of Service (EOS), or End of Life (EOL).

While the product lifecycle portal is straightforward to use, there are customer use cases for retrieving this information for automation purposes, such as updating an internal change management database (CMDB) to performing an inventory of your deployed Broadcom software to understand which versions might could be affected from a support standpoint.

To demonstrate the use of the Broadcom Product Lifecycle API, I have created a simple PowerShell function called Get-BroadcomProductLifecycle which should make it easy to programmatically retrieve a given Broadcom product and understand its current support information.

Step 1 - Download the BroadcomProductLifecycle.ps1 PowerShell script to your local system. You will need to source the file to use the Get-BroadcomProductLifecycle function

. ./BroadcomProductLifecycle.ps1

Step 2 - When you first use the Get-BroadcomProductLifecycle function, you will need to select the desired Broadcom Division and you can hit the "tab" key to have it automatically list out the values as you can see from the screenshot below.

Once the -Division parameter has been specified, it will use that to provide a filter list of Products which you can hit the "tab" key to have it automatically list out the values as you can see from the screenshot below.

You will need to copy the desired product string and provide that to the -Product parameter. Here is the output using the example Get-BroadcomProductLifecycle -Division VCF -Product "VMware Cloud Foundation" will show all supported components.

You can also filter the results further by using the -Support parameter and choose from one of the fixed default filters (again, you can tab out options):

For example, we can search for all components that will be end of support in the next 12 months for the "VMware Cloud Foundation" product by using the following command:

Get-BroadcomProductLifecycle -Division VCF -Product "VMware Cloud Foundation" -Support 'EOS in 12 months'