Feature #10444

Add identification of motherboards to Facter

Added by Jason Gill 7 months ago. Updated 6 months ago.

Status:Closed Start date:11/01/2011
Priority:Low Due date:
Assignee:- % Done:

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Category:library
Target version:1.6.4
Keywords: Affected Facter version:
Branch:https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/pull/92
Votes: 0

Description

Currently, Facter (as part of the manufacturer.rb) can get information from DMI about the manufacturer of a system. This can be unreliable on “whitebox” machines, where the manufacturer/product name/serial number fields are left blank.

For example, on a Dell system, the output of dmidecode includes:

Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
  Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
  Product Name: PowerEdge R515
  Version: Not Specified
  Serial Number: 63XXXQ1
  UUID: 4C4XXXXXX-0033-5110-8052-B6C04F4E5131
  Wake-up Type: Power Switch
  SKU Number: Not Specified
  Family: Not Specified
Handle 0x0200, DMI type 2, 9 bytes
Base Board Information
  Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
  Product Name: 03X0MN
  Version: A01
  Serial Number: ..CNXXXX313A0459.
  Asset Tag: Not Specified

But on a “whitebox” machine, the output looks like:

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 25 bytes
System Information
  Manufacturer: Intel                         
  Product Name:                               
  Version:                               
  Serial Number:                               
  UUID: 6BXXXX05-7162-11DC-618F-000423DDDB14
  Wake-up Type: Power Switch
Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes
Base Board Information
  Manufacturer: Intel
  Product Name: SE7520BD2D
  Version: FRU Ver 0.01
  Serial Number: BZB26XXX0124

Adding identification of motherboards would help augment this information.

History

#1
Updated by Jason Gill 7 months ago

I have submitted a pull request with a simple patch over at github:

https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/pull/92

The patch includes the addition of facts for “boardmanufacturer”, “boardproductname”, and “boardserialnumber”.

Suggestions are welcomed!

#2
Updated by Adrien Thebo 7 months ago

  • Category set to library
  • Status changed from Unreviewed to In Topic Branch Pending Review
  • Branch set to https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/pull/92

#3
Updated by Adrien Thebo 6 months ago

  • Status changed from In Topic Branch Pending Review to Merged - Pending Release

Merged into 1.6.x in commit:4d6e991d228008c794f790cee2f4ad1b08925628

#4
Updated by Matthaus Litteken 6 months ago

  • Status changed from Merged - Pending Release to Closed
  • Target version set to 1.6.4

released in facter 1.6.4rc1

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