jinventory

jinventory uses libudev to gather information from SYSFS about network, CPU, storage devices/hosts and present it in JSON format on stdout.

Source:

https://github.com/IBM/jinventory

Mailing list:

jentenma@us.ibm.com roger@us.ibm.com rpstewar@us.ibm.com

License:

See 'LICENSE' file.

Compilation dependencies:

• C and C++ compiler (gcc, g++)
• GNU build tools (automake, autoconf, libtool, etc)
• yum: libudev-devel Debian: libudev-dev
• yum: json-c-devel Debian: libjson0 libjson0-dev

Binary dependencies:

libudev & json-c .so

Building:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

The binary "jinventory" will be installed to /usr/local/bin

Examples:

[root@host:~]$ jinventory storage
{ "drive00": { "info": { "path": "pci-0000:1b:00.0-scsi-0:2:0:0", "device": "\/dev\/sda", "vendor": "IBM", "model": "ServeRAID_M5110", "revision": "3.19", "snum": "3600605b0051b04b01b46d280226fbbce", "size": "11718746112", "scsi_generic": "sg0" } } }

[root@host:~]$ jinventory storage | python -m json.tool
{
    "drive00": {
        "info": {
            "device": "/dev/sda",
            "model": "ServeRAID_M5110",
            "path": "pci-0000:1b:00.0-scsi-0:2:0:0",
            "revision": "3.19",
            "scsi_generic": "sg0",
            "size": "11718746112",
            "snum": "3600605b0051b04b01b46d280226fbbce",
            "vendor": "IBM"
        }
    }
}

Building RPMs:

To build a tarball to feed to rpmbuild, do

$ make dist-gzip

As an example, use a command similar to the following:

$ rpmbuild -ba [--target=ppc64le] <path-to-spec-file>

Hacking:

All patches should be sent to the mailing list with linux-kernel style 'Signed-Off-By'. The following git commands can be used:

- git commit -s
- git format-patch

You probably want to read the linux Documentation/Submitting Patches as much of it applies to jinventory

Submitting patches:

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