I just looked at the code for lshw. The master branch already supports
JSON. We just need them to release it.
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Don Zickus <dzickus(a)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 <dzickus(a)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
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