Any way to detect server model?

[Ray Van Dolson]

FYI, here's the awk script I ended up writing to pull this information out.
Maybe useful to others down the line.

awk '
BEGIN { RS = "\nHandle " ; FS = "[, ]" } 
{
  if (substr($1, 0, 6) == "0x0100") { 
    match($0, "Product Name: ([^\n]+)")
    rl = RLENGTH
    a = substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH)
    match(a, ":")
    print substr(a, RSTART+1, rl-RSTART)
  }
}
'

Just pipe the output of dmidecode to it.  I had to use substr() instead of
using a third argument to match() because the awk in busy box (at least the
one that comes with RHEL4) doesn't support it.

Ray

On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 04:42:23PM -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> Thanks Thomas!  Exactly what I needed.
> 
> Ray
> 
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 06:31:15PM -0600, Thomas_Chenault at dell.com wrote:
> > The model name of the server can be found in the output of `dmidecode'
> > in the `System Information' section.
> > 
> > 
> > Thomas