Bug 760242 - RFE: provide lspci, dmidecode outputs
Summary: RFE: provide lspci, dmidecode outputs
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Beaker
Classification: Retired
Component: inventory
Version: 0.8
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
unspecified vote
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: beaker-dev-list
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Whiteboard: Inventory
: 1199986 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-12-05 17:06 UTC by Tomáš Bžatek
Modified: 2020-11-19 22:19 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2020-11-19 22:19:11 UTC


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Description Tomáš Bžatek 2011-12-05 17:06:33 UTC
It would be nice if we could display outputs of lspci, dmidecode and /proc/cpuinfo directly from beaker web UI, for the particular machine. A plain text file would do the trick, I find it easier to read than the parsed information in the table. Thanks

Comment 2 Charles Rose (Dell) 2014-11-26 17:54:30 UTC
(In reply to Tomáš Bžatek from comment #0)
> It would be nice if we could display outputs of lspci, dmidecode and
> /proc/cpuinfo directly from beaker web UI, for the particular machine. A
> plain text file would do the trick, I find it easier to read than the parsed
> information in the table. Thanks

This will be very helpful. I recently needed DIMM slots and memory in each slot (for rasdaemon work) and it would have saved me hours if I had dmidecode output available on beaker UI.

Comment 4 Dan Callaghan 2015-03-10 00:44:08 UTC
*** Bug 1199986 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Amit Saha 2015-06-05 03:12:07 UTC
How dependent are dmidecode and lscpi output on the kernel? Won't the output differ depending on which distro was used to scan the system and find the output of these commands?

I have seen differing contents in /proc/cpuinfo depending on the kernel version (bug 1223115)

Comment 7 Prarit Bhargava 2015-06-05 13:08:06 UTC
(In reply to Amit Saha from comment #6)
> How dependent are dmidecode and lscpi output on the kernel? Won't the output
> differ depending on which distro was used to scan the system and find the
> output of these commands?
> 
> I have seen differing contents in /proc/cpuinfo depending on the kernel
> version (bug 1223115)

lspci may depend on how recent the PCI IDs file is on the particular version of OS, but dmidecode has been relatively stable over the past 5 years so I don't see it varying that much.

P.

Comment 8 Roman Joost 2015-11-18 04:17:39 UTC
Hi,

I'd like to ask if this feature would still be helpful in order to determine priority in our backlog. What output would be most helpful of the three mentioned in comment 1: lspci, dmidecode and /proc/cpuinfo ?

Comment 9 Prarit Bhargava 2015-11-18 14:25:20 UTC
(In reply to Roman Joost from comment #8)
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to ask if this feature would still be helpful in order to determine
> priority in our backlog. What output would be most helpful of the three
> mentioned in comment 1: lspci, dmidecode and /proc/cpuinfo ?

Hi -- yes, this information is useful for each system because we can quickly search in this data.

To start, I think /proc/cpuinfo is the most useful.  However, we would only need the output of a single cpu.

P.

Comment 10 Charles Rose (Dell) 2015-11-18 16:23:18 UTC
(In reply to Roman Joost from comment #8)
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to ask if this feature would still be helpful in order to determine
> priority in our backlog. What output would be most helpful of the three
> mentioned in comment 1: lspci, dmidecode and /proc/cpuinfo ?

dmidecode has BIOS version and DIMM information which is very useful.

lspci helps with tracking down peripherals (include subvendor/device ID).

Comment 11 Roman Joost 2015-11-22 23:35:48 UTC
Thanks guys for letting me know.


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