Re: Probing for System Model Information

[Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 02:47:05PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 06:32:31AM -0700, Brian McGrew wrote:
>  > Good morning All!  We exclusively ship Dell boxes with our
>  > hardware.  However, we use several different models, 1400's,
>  > 1600's, 2350's, 4600's and so on.  I need to write a small
>  > program to probe the system for the model information since I
>  > don't seem to find it in the logs anywhere.  I know the model
>  > info is in there somewhere and it's accessible because if I look
>  > on the default factory installed version of Windows, it's listed.
>  > Does anyone know how to do this or can you point me to one that's
>  > already done or some samples?
>  
> You can find this info in the DMI tables assuming Dell filled
> them in with sensible data (which they usually do).

Yes, we do. :-)  I've abbreviated the output to serve as an example.

# dmidecode
Handle 0x0000
        BIOS Information Block
                Vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
                Version: A08
Handle 0x0100
        System Information Block
                Vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
                Product: PowerEdge 2400
Handle 0x0300
        Chassis Information Block
                Serial Number: MY_SERIAL_NUMBER
                Asset Tag: 0000001


Thanks,
Matt

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