Any way to detect server model?

[Michael E Brown]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 03:58:41PM -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> Thanks for sharing!  Unfortunately, I needed to have a solution that would
> work from the busyboxy shell used during a Kickstart install.  perl isn't
> available to me (at least not easily) from %pre in Kickstart. :(

Libsmbios has the getSystemId binary which prints this information. Libsmbios will be in FC7 and will be in FC6 Extras soon.

[root at mock ~]# getSystemId 
Libsmbios:    0.13.2
System ID:    0x016D
Service Tag:  6J37J61
Express Service Code: 14214941641
Product Name: PowerEdge 2850
BIOS Version: A04
Vendor:       Dell Computer Corporation
Is Dell:      1

--
Michael


> 
> Ray
> 
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:55:53AM +1100, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson at esri.com> writes:
> > 
> > > FYI, here's the awk script I ended up writing to pull this information out.
> > > Maybe useful to others down the line.
> > 
> > I use that script to find most of the stuff i need from dmidecode
> > (yeah not really strict perl -w compliant but well) :
> > ,----
> 
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