[Beowulf] How do people keep track of computers in your cluster(s)?

[Lombard, David N]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 04:26:19PM -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Bruno Coutinho wrote:
> 
> >dmidecode can be used to gather vendor, serial number and firmware version
> >of bios, processor and motherboard, and the machine as a whole  (if vendor
> >fill it).
> >
> >smartctl can gather this information about disks
> 
> I'll look into seeing if I can integrate some of this into xmlsysd,
> then.  Ideally via a systems call, not a shell call, as the latter has a
> lot of overhead.
> 
>    rgb

Modulo hot-plugging, dmidecode (as well as ownershipd and vpddecode) present
static output.  As smartctl provides some dynamic info, this is more of an
issue.

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David N. Lombard, Intel, Irvine, CA
I do not speak for Intel Corporation; all comments are strictly my own.