Detecting Dell Hardware -

[Tom Brown]

> I use either Dell or HP kit and i want to have common kickstarts that 
> only install the vendor monitoring tools on the specific machines.
>
> Its easy with Dell as if its not a supported system, ie Dell!!, then 
> it fails to install but annoyingly the HP software will install on non 
> HP kit.
>
> Does anyone know a trick to detect if its Dell or something else ? 
> Would IPMI do this somehow? We use Centos/RHEL 4 and 5
>
>

posted too soon!

# dmidecode | grep Vendor
        Vendor: Dell Computer Corporation

that would do it then