Changes between Version 15 and Version 16 of Internal/InventoryV3

Timestamp:

Oct 26, 2009, 6:45:39 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

ssugrim

Comment:

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Internal/InventoryV3

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 James is working on a second generation inventory script.
 
-Currently on: Testing - Have working prototype
+Currently on: Merging scripts and getting motherboard serial number.
 
 
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  1. Writer: checks the mysql repository for changes from the current state. If different changes them.
 
+'''NOTE''' Gatherer and Writer are being merged into a single file which I will call inventory2_client.rb
 
 The sql structure is a bit of a bit mess, the major tables of interest are:
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   1. update devices if diffrent and stamp with inventory number
  1. profit.
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+----
+== Require Tools / Libraries ==
+
+ 1. lsusb (usbutils.deb)
+ 1. lspci (native)
+ 1. dmesg (native)
+ 1. ifconfig (native)
+ 1. libxml-simple-ruby.deb
+ 1. libmysql-ruby.deb
+ 1. lshw (lshw.deb)
 
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 Also now writer only checks vendor and device id. If no match is found it will add it with the description string. 
 
+----
+=== 10/26/09 ===
+
+Modifying gather to use lshw to collect uuid (motherboard serial number) also changing the internal data types to more closely match the table contents e.g devices and motherboards. 
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+Originally I thought to just used lshw to gather most of the information, but this doesn't really gain us any thing since I would have to resort to the other tools (lsusb and lspci) to find the relevant entries in lshw output (and would require a huge rewrite of the gatherer). Lshw can output in a few diffrent ways. I'm currently using the direct line by line approach to search for the uuid. I did however experiment with the -xml output. When combined with XmlSimple.xml_in() 
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