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+Title: Sitesummary tip: Listing computer hardware models used at site
+Tags: english, debian, debian edu, sitesummary
+Date: 2010-06-03 12:05
+
+<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>