blog/data/2010-06-03-sitesummary-hw.txt

   1 Title: Sitesummary tip: Listing computer hardware models used at site
   2 Tags: english, debian, debian edu, sitesummary
   3 Date: 2010-06-03 12:05
   4
   5 <p>When using sitesummary at a site to track machines, it is possible
   6 to get a list of the machine types in use thanks to the DMI
   7 information extracted from each machine.  The script to do so is
   8 included in the sitesummary package, and here is example output from
   9 the Skolelinux build servers:</p>
  10
  11 <blockquote><pre>
  12 maintainer:~# /usr/lib/sitesummary/hardware-model-summary
  13   vendor                    count
  14   Dell Computer Corporation     1
  15     PowerEdge 1750              1
  16   IBM                           1
  17     eserver xSeries 345 -[8670M1X]-     1
  18   Intel                         2
  19   [no-dmi-info]                 3
  20 maintainer:~#
  21 </pre></blockquote>
  22
  23 <p>The quality of the report depend on the quality of the DMI tables
  24 provided in each machine.  Here there are Intel machines without model
  25 information listed with Intel as vendor and no model, and virtual Xen
  26 machines listed as [no-dmi-info].  One can add -l as a command line
  27 option to list the individual machines.</p>
  28
  29 <p>A larger list is
  30 <a href="http://narvikskolen.no/sitesummary/">available from the the
  31 city of Narvik</a>, which uses Skolelinux on all their shools and also
  32 provide the basic sitesummary report publicly.  In their report there
  33 are ~1400 machines. I know they use both Ubuntu and Skolelinux on
  34 their machines, and as sitesummary is available in both distributions,
  35 it is trivial to get all of them to report to the same central
  36 collector.</p>