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

[Alderman, Sean]

Michael and Mark,

Thanks for the replies.  Perhaps a point of stupidity on my part as
pciutils is not in my minimal list of packages  to kickstart.  I'll have
to fix that, as it does provide some nice info.

So basically, if I'm looking at a PERC4 or older I need to install this
perc-cerc-apps-6.03-A06.tar.gz bundle...
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&
releaseid=R71524&formatcnt=2&fileid=92846

or if I have a PERC 5 I need to install the MegaRAID Storage Manager
from LSI...
http://www.lsi.com/support/downloads/megaraid/miscellaneous/linux/MSM_1.
18-00.zip

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Sean M. Alderman
513.204.2704

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael E Brown [mailto:Michael_E_Brown at dell.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 12:49 PM
To: Alderman, Sean
Cc: linux-poweredge at dell.com
Subject: Re: Scripting a way to discover Dell hardware...tips?

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