Scripting a way to discover Dell hardware...tips?

[Michael E Brown]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 12:36:09PM -0400, Alderman, Sean wrote:
> Greetings,
>   I'm looking for suggestions on scripting methods to discover what PERC
> (if any) a server has inside during the Post Install script section of a
> kickstart.  Basically I have a pretty diverse environment, I use a php
> script I wrote to build kickstart config files, one of the dynamic
> things the php script builds is the post install script, it uses some
> url parameters and system facts to do post install tasks.  I'm looking
> to tack on something new to the post install script... a shell script to
> definitively discover and install the appropriate MegaRaid tools be that
> MegaRC, MegaCli, or what for the Dell XX50 server I'm installing on.
> 
> I've been looking at how /proc/scsi/scsi looks across my 2650's and
> 2950's, but it's not definitive, and probably doesn't give me enough
> information to choose the right package from LSI to install.  For
> example, I have two 2650's both running RHEL ES3 and /proc/scsi/scsi
> looks like:
> 
> cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> Attached devices:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: DELL     Model: PERC Mirror      Rev: V1.0
>   Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02

lspci.
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Michael