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Re: [dmidecode] Having dmidecode being machine friendly


From: Erwan Velu
Subject: Re: [dmidecode] Having dmidecode being machine friendly
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 14:16:00 +0200

Looks like this email wasn't really popular :)
I don't know how to have a reliable parsing of dmi structures out of
dmidecode which doesn't offer any guarantee on the output.
WDYT about having a JSON output ?
Smartmontools is on the way to change on this point ;))
Le mar. 18 sept. 2018 à 16:00, Erwan Velu <address@hidden> a écrit :
>
> Hi folks,
>
> That's almost an endless story but I'm back one more time with almost
> the same idea/need.
> I'm currently developing a tool for doing some consistency check for
> clusters and reporting the hardware configuration is obviously one of
> these tasks to perform.
> I'm trying to compare nodes between themselves but also against a
> "definition" of them.
>
> I'll be part of a GO tooling so I need to do my stuff in go.
>
> So what are the solutions for a third party tool to get __accurate__
> dmi information from a system ?
>
> I found a couple of GO libraries which are all outdated or just try to
> parse the string output of dmidecode. Both of them are not really
> satisfying. I could also use lshw which have dmi support but much less
> accurate than dmidecode, which is to my opinion, the most up-to-date
> opensource tool to get DMI information.
>
> As dmidecode is where the vendor contributes but is also the most used
> DMI tooling,  why not having at least a machine-readable format output
> (like json) to ease the parsing output of dmidecode ? That would made
> our (3rd party tooling) lives much easier.
>
> Thx !
>
> Erwan,



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