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 <[email protected]> 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 I found a couple of GO libraries which are all outdated or just try to 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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