On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 04:26:19PM -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote: > On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Bruno Coutinho wrote: > > >dmidecode can be used to gather vendor, serial number and firmware version > >of bios, processor and motherboard, and the machine as a whole (if vendor > >fill it). > > > >smartctl can gather this information about disks > > I'll look into seeing if I can integrate some of this into xmlsysd, > then. Ideally via a systems call, not a shell call, as the latter has a > lot of overhead. > > rgb
Modulo hot-plugging, dmidecode (as well as ownershipd and vpddecode) present static output. As smartctl provides some dynamic info, this is more of an issue. -- David N. Lombard, Intel, Irvine, CA I do not speak for Intel Corporation; all comments are strictly my own. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
