Detecting Dell Hardware -

[Mark Watts]

On Wednesday 02 July 2008 10:30:55 Tom Brown wrote:
> 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
>
> thanks
>
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# dmidecode | grep Vendor
        Vendor: Dell Inc.

# dmidecode | grep Vendor
        Vendor: HP

Mark.
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Mark Watts BSc RHCE MBCS
Senior Systems Engineer
QinetiQ Applied Technologies
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