Re: determine system type?

From: Fran Horan (fran.horan_at_jhuapl.edu)
Date: 11/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:19:52 -0500

Saw this in a recent related post. Maybe it will help:

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/mws?entry=smbios_support_for_solaris_x86

"john e" <john.edsmith@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:_l3gf.113243$Hs.45482@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com...
> I've an inventory script that runs on all of our systems and updates a
MySQL database
> with the hostname, patch level & a bunch of other info. I wrote it for
sparc and
> evertyhing works except that I depended on prtdiag a lot to get info on
the make &
> model.
>
> I have no way of doing this on my x86 systems.
>
> prtdiag doesn't exist:
>
> # prtdiag
> prtdiag: not implemented on i86pc
> #
>
> Right now I've got a few v40's, v20's & a few IBM X Servers. Only the IBM
X Servers will
> give me any minimal detail in a prtconf -vv:
>
> Hardware properties:
> name='devid' type=string items=1
>
value='id1,sd@SIBM-ESXSST336753LC____FN3HX0PKY400007343QWUU'
> name='inquiry-revision-id' type=string items=1
> value='B85D'
> name='inquiry-product-id' type=string items=1
> value='ST336753LC FN'
> name='inquiry-vendor-id' type=string items=1
> value='IBM-ESXS'
> name='inquiry-device-type' type=int items=1
> value=00000000
>
> The v40z doesn't even report this much :)
>
> I'm sure there is some mechanism for doing this. Anyone know?
>
> -John
>