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:
+ ++ ++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:~# +
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.
+ +A larger list is +available from the the +city of Narvik, 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.
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