Re: Reviving the hardware census

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On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 7:27 AM, Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 09:19:04AM -0500, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
>> Agreed completely. But I still need someone with experience using lshw
>> to write a data processor (json => SQL) for that data. Also, we will
>> need to sanitize the lshw output to ensure we omit identifying
>> information. For example, ip addresses on the network interfaces need
>> to be filtered out. It might be better to write an option for upstream
>> lshw to anonymize the output.
>
> You mean like 'lshw -sanitize'? :-)

I haven't looked at how sanitize works, but it's probably useful for
the database to avoid duplicate entries. I think it'd be better to
turn something like the product serial number into a hash, and then
use the hash to avoid duplicate entries.

-- 
Chris Murphy
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