Node hardware information script

[Daniel Westervelt]

This is all great work as long as we make sure to include it as part of the
product and not some pocket of useful tools. That might take some work to
figure out how to include it in a sensible way (user story side) but work
worth doing.

Thanks!

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Christian Robottom Reis <kiko at canonical.com>
wrote:

> 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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Daniel Westervelt <daniel.westervelt at canonical.com>
Vice President, Cloud Development and Operations (CDO)
Canonical Ltd.
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