<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/10/21, Carsten Aulbert <<a href="mailto:carsten.aulbert@aei.mpg.de">carsten.aulbert@aei.mpg.de</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br><br>we are currently looking into the problem, how to keep track of<br>computers which we are going to buy. On the one hand there are the<br>standard tools to monitor a running cluster like ganglia, nagios,<br>
zenoss, ... but these are - to my understanding - just for monitoring<br>the current status.<br><br>However, I would like to have something where we have something like a<br>large table about the hardware in question. In there information like
<br><br>* vendor<br>* serial number<br>* MAC addresses (eth0, eth1,..., IPMI, RAID,...)<br>* maybe even firmware versions and serial numbers of exchangeable<br>internal hardware (hard disks)<br>* basically all physical information of the box
<br><br></blockquote></div><br>dmidecode can be used to gather vendor, serial number and firmware version of bios, processor and motherboard, and the machine as a whole (if vendor fill it).<br><br>smartctl can gather this information about disks
<br><br>but I don't know a tool that can grab present this information of the entire cluster. <br>