Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 15:58:00 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> To: Antony Mawer <fbsd-questions@mawer.org> Cc: Xiao-Yong Jin <xj2106@columbia.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? Message-ID: <20060803154705.X6529@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <44D1A866.2030206@mawer.org> References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org> <17615.30414.314802.792740@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <ef10de9a0608011037w3609b5a6k1709aea61d43ed0f@mail.gmail.com> <20060801223754.U27679@ganymede.hub.org> <ef10de9a0608011859q45bdd636o757fb4aba2d3404d@mail.gmail.com> <20060801230301.Q27679@ganymede.hub.org> <df9ac37c0608012122q196a6434jf849cc7bd8c1156@mail.gmail.com> <44D09F46.6020300@dial.pipex.com> <ef10de9a0608021047u553a812fpbcf09c8c26df09b6@mail.gmail.com> <44D0F2FE.9020507@dial.pipex.com> <ef10de9a0608021216u455099a9yf66ea2d1698f4d19@mail.gmail.com> <20060802203604.A6529@ganymede.hub.org> <44D153D0.9000304@webanoide.org> <87wt9qzh2i.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> <20060803011653.G6529@ganymede.hub.org> <44D1A866.2030206@mawer.org>
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On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Antony Mawer wrote:
> Agreed...
>
> I could probably add around 1,500 systems that could conceivably be setup to
> chime in with their numbers periodically; one of the pre-requisites for that
> would be that the access method be HTTP or HTTPS based so it could be relayed
> via a proxy...
>
> Another nice thing to include might be a hash of hardware inventory (a
> further opt-in thing beyond the basic checkins)... Mark alluded to this early
> in the piece, but it would be nice to be able to pull up something that said
> "hang on, out of the X% of users on file, Y% are using Adaptec SCSI cards, in
> particular model XYZ"... this would be very helpful when trying to get vendor
> support etc...
>
> Some form of hash calculated on these would allow you to detect if they had
> changed at all, and only re-send them in the event of a change...
>
> ... just thinking out loud ... !
'k, so, how do we script this then?
Getting a list of devices is actually pretty easy, and I've tried this on
my 4.x machines also, so it isn't something that will be a problem on
older versions:
# pciconf -l
chip0@pci0:0:0: class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x700c1022 rev=0x20 hdr=0x00
pcib1@pci0:1:0: class=0x060400 card=0x00000000 chip=0x700d1022 rev=0x00 hdr=0x01
isab0@pci0:7:0: class=0x060100 card=0x00000000 chip=0x74401022 rev=0x05 hdr=0x00
none0@pci0:7:1: class=0x01018a card=0x74411022 chip=0x74411022 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
chip1@pci0:7:3: class=0x068000 card=0x74431022 chip=0x74431022 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
asr0@pci0:9:0: class=0x010400 card=0xc0351044 chip=0xa5111044 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
none1@pci0:11:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10018086 chip=0x100f8086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
pcib2@pci0:16:0: class=0x060400 card=0x00000000 chip=0x74481022 rev=0x05 hdr=0x01
none2@pci2:0:0: class=0x0c0310 card=0x74491022 chip=0x74491022 rev=0x07 hdr=0x00
none3@pci2:7:0: class=0x030000 card=0x80081002 chip=0x47521002 rev=0x27 hdr=0x00
fxp0@pci2:8:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10408086 chip=0x12298086 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
And, more specifically, we can get:
# pciconf -l -v
asr0@pci0:9:0: class=0x010400 card=0xc0351044 chip=0xa5111044 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Adaptec (Formerly: Distributed Processing Technology (DPT))'
device = 'Raptor SmartRAID Controller'
class = mass storage
subclass = RAID
So, with that one command, we can get a fair amount of hardware
information ... but, how to feed that into a proper HTTP request?
Storing all of that information would be cool, cause then we could build
reports based on device driver / vendor / device / class and subclass ...
but that might be a bit heavy to do in an HTTP request, no? I take it
email isn't an option, in your case?
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