Re: Reviving the hardware census

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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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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