[Novalug] script for getting hardware info
Jon LaBadie
novalugml@jgcomp.com
Thu May 27 17:04:42 EDT 2010
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:46:12PM -0400, Peter Larsen wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 18:05 +0000, Miguel Gonzalez wrote:
> > I'm trying to write a plugin for GLPI that retrieves some hardware info from a specific machine. Right now I just need CPU, total memory and total hard drive. I'm trying to get this info from a non-root account so there is no risk involved since GLPI is web-based.
>
> That's what HAL is for. Try "lshal" first - you can apply filters after
> that.
>
> > /proc/cpuinfo can be a little cumbersome to parse since it shows an entry for each core or cpu in the machine but it's still helpful
> >
> > /proc/meminfo - you can get the total.
> >
> > the problem is to get the total hard drive (either IDE, SATA, SAS o SCSI). Is this possible as a non-root? /sbin/fdisk -l doesn't work as non-root.
>
> lshal | grep storage.size
>
Looks like a winner!
jl
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