From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 10:02:27 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Ny oppføring. X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/8aa1054cdcc7f85da429fc0d30ca91509714b11c Ny oppføring. --- diff --git a/blog/data/2010-06-03-sitesummary-hw.txt b/blog/data/2010-06-03-sitesummary-hw.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..23a47f2ff7 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/data/2010-06-03-sitesummary-hw.txt @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +Title: Sitesummary tip: Listing computer hardware models used at site +Tags: english, debian, debian edu, sitesummary +Date: 2010-06-03 12:05 + +

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:

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+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:~#
+
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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.

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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.