Node hardware information script

[Christian Robottom Reis]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 08:49:29PM -0800, Mike Pontillo wrote:
>    I recently found myself in need of an easy way to dump all the relevant
> information about a machine to be used with MAAS, such as:
> 
>  - PCI device information
>  - USB device information
>  - modaliases (to correlate with the above!)
>  - Serial ports
>  - Network interfaces
>  - Block devices (summary and details)
>  - DMI data (including full dump)
> 
>    Basically most of the things that MAAS gathers when it commissions, plus
> a little extra to make it more understandable to a human... and all in one
> place.

This is really useful -- thanks for sharing (and I wonder how many of
these useful things you have up your sleeve?)

We're going to start looking into tools to mass-import and -export from
MAAS, and I'd like to centralize this effort and take advantage of work
that's been done already. There is some overlap with the tool you've
provided, since we'll need the hardware data to build the model that we
want to import. I'd like this ideally to use an API library, but if
that's not yet ready for use, then we can prototype as you have.
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