On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 04:09:26PM -0500, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: > I just looked at the code for lshw. The master branch already supports > JSON. We just need them to release it.
Eh? 'lshw -json' doesn't work for you? I thought that was a supported output for a while now. At least it works on my F27 box, but I think we have it running successfully under RHEL-7 too. Cheers, Don > > On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Don Zickus <dzic...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 03:16:24PM -0500, Nathaniel McCallum wrote: > >> I just played around with lshw a bit. We should totally make it export > >> JSON. We can then submit this directly (as one census plugin). > > > > Yes, that is how we use it to update hardware info internally to our Beaker > > instance. :-) > > > > Cheers, > > Don > > > >> > >> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Don Zickus <dzic...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> > On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 10:49:02PM +0000, Jeremy Cline wrote: > >> >> Hey folks, > >> >> > >> >> For some time now, Fedora has operated without a database of hardware > >> >> users have. Smolt, the old hardware database, was retired in 2012[0] and > >> >> its intended successor[1] was never deployed by Fedora Infrastructure. > >> >> > >> >> It would be nice to have a hardware database, so I (and hopefully some > >> >> others) would like to get Census up and running for Fedora. Before we > >> >> look at deploying Census, however, it would be good to make sure it has > >> >> everything we need. > >> >> > >> >> Census has client plugins to collect information[2]. At the moment, it > >> >> has plugins for: > >> >> > >> >> * The vendor, device, subsystem_vendor, subsystem_device, and class from > >> >> each PCI device > >> >> > >> >> * The idVendor, idProduct, bcdDevice, and bDeviceClass for USB devices > >> >> as well as the bInterfaceClass, bInterfaceSubClass, and > >> >> bInterfaceProtocol for each interface > >> >> > >> >> * The contents of /etc/os-release > >> >> > >> >> * All the RPMs installed on a system > >> >> > >> >> Other than the drivers bound to the PCI and USB devices (which is an > >> >> open PR[3]), what else would be good to collect? > >> >> > >> >> [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Smolt_retirement > >> >> [1] https://github.com/npmccallum/census > >> >> [2] https://github.com/npmccallum/census/blob/master/client/plugins/ > >> >> [3] https://github.com/npmccallum/census/pull/3 > >> > > >> > Internally, we have been focusing on using 'lshw' as the tool that > >> > provides > >> > all that info and handles all the arch funkiness (and includes firmware). > >> > If there is anything missing, we have tried to push upstream to that > >> > project. > >> > > >> > Would that cover a lot of the info you are looking for? > >> > > >> > Cheers, > >> > Don > >> _______________________________________________ > >> kernel mailing list -- kernel@lists.fedoraproject.org > >> To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > _______________________________________________ > kernel mailing list -- kernel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
