</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
+<div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sitesummary_tip__Listing_computer_hardware_models_used_at_site.html">Sitesummary tip: Listing computer hardware models used at site</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 2010-06-03 12:05
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="body">
+
+<p>When using sitesummary at a site to track machines, it is possible
+to get a list of the machine types in use thanks to the DMI
+information extracted from each machine. The script to do so is
+included in the sitesummary package, and here is example output from
+the Skolelinux build servers:</p>
+
+<blockquote><pre>
+maintainer:~# /usr/lib/sitesummary/hardware-model-summary
+ vendor count
+ Dell Computer Corporation 1
+ PowerEdge 1750 1
+ IBM 1
+ eserver xSeries 345 -[8670M1X]- 1
+ Intel 2
+ [no-dmi-info] 3
+maintainer:~#
+</pre></blockquote>
+
+<p>The quality of the report depend on the quality of the DMI tables
+provided in each machine. Here there are Intel machines without model
+information listed with Intel as vendor and mo model, and virtual Xen
+machines listed as [no-dmi-info]. One can add -l as a command line
+option to list the individual machines.</p>
+
+<p>A larger list is
+<a href="http://narvikskolen.no/sitesummary/">available from the the
+city of Narvik</a>, which uses Skolelinux on all their shools and also
+provide the basic sitesummary report publicly. In their report there
+are ~1400 machines. I know they use both Ubuntu and Skolelinux on
+their machines, and as sitesummary is available in both distributions,
+it is trivial to get all of them to report to the same central
+collector.</p>
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sitesummary">sitesummary</a>.
+
+ </div>
+</div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
+<div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_manual_for_standards_wars___.html">A manual for standards wars...</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 2010-06-06 14:15
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="body">
+
+<p>Via the
+<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/robweir/antic-atom/~3/QzU4RgoAGMg/weekly-links-10.html">blog
+of Rob Weir</a> I came across the very interesting essay named
+<a href="http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/shapiro/wars.pdf">The Art of
+Standards Wars</a> (PDF 25 pages). I recommend it for everyone
+following the standards wars of today.</p>
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>.
+
+ </div>
+</div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
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