sysinfo isn't very sophisticated. It might be easier just to fix it. What will be harder is the reality of modern systems which are hiding hardware details from the OS, otherwise known as virtualization. -- richard
Alexey M. Akopyan wrote: > Hi all, > > I just want to detail a bit. Our team works on Common Hardware > Database project for Java SE Quality organization and we use agent > based approach for picking up hardware information. This agent relied > on the third party utility 'sysinfo' which works only for Solaris up > to version 9. We look for reliable way to automatically pick the > following set of data about in-box storage devices: > 1. Type (to distinguish between HDD, CD, DVD, and floppies) > 2. Size for HDD > 3. Vendor > 4. Model > 5. Serial number if possible > As Shannon wrote we tried a few tools but looks like the information > we seek is distributed over output of different tools. Chances are > high that we just don't know about the proper tool so we are seeking > your help. > > Thanks a lot in advance, > -AMA > > Shannon Fiume wrote: >> Hi, >> >> What's the correct interface to finding out hardware information on a >> s10/opensolaris system? I've seen hardware type information in >> prtdiag, smbios, kstat, iostat -En, modinfo, cfgadm and by combing >> the device tree. Say for instance I want to know if a cdrom is device >> blah on a system or how do I know what it's named, if the kernel >> knows it's present, has attached a driver if necessary and is usable >> to Solaris? >> >> If I wanted to check if an crypto card is present, I'd check if the >> device was seen in the device tree, the kernel module was loaded in >> Solaris and check kstat, run cfgadm and prtdiag to also see the card >> and has no errors. Is there something I'm missing, is there something >> easier to use? Also what about SNMP mibs? >> >> Thanks, >> ~~sa >> > _______________________________________________ > fm-discuss mailing list > fm-discuss at opensolaris.org >
