How to get server type with dmidecode?

Question

For example I have HP ProLiant DL380 G6.

How can I get this information with command dmidecode? or I have to use another command?

Answer 1

dmidecode -s  system-product-name

Answer 2

On my ProLiant DL180 G5 this works.

# dmidecode -t 1|grep -E '(Product Name|Manufacturer)'
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: ProLiant DL180 G5
#

Answer 3

There's no "works-every-time" route to doing this, you basically have to just build up a picture through looking at the responses to the various dmidecode options but on servers with out-of-band management (such as HP's iLO) doing a 'dmidecode -t baseboard' should display at least something of interest.

Of course if you KNOW it's a HP server you can always install their PSP driver set which will let you get a lot more information than you can purely by using dmidecode.

Answer 4

if you run dmidecode | less

and look for "System Information" that should give you what you want.

you should not need any other command but I found myself sometimes using lshw.

Answer 5

See: HP ProLiant DL360 G6 reporting missing fan

I use something like the following, rolled into a script:

dmidecode -t 1 | egrep '(Manufacturer|Product|Serial)'; dmidecode -t processor| egrep '(Socket|Version)'

The output is:

[root@LAS ~]# dmidecode -t 1 | egrep '(Manufacturer|Product|Serial)'; dmidecode -t 0 | egrep '(Version|Release)'; dmidecode  -t processor| egrep '(Socket|Version)'
        Manufacturer: HP
        Product Name: ProLiant DL380 G6
        Serial Number: 2UXxxxx6KT      
        Version: P62
        Release Date: 05/05/2011
        Socket Designation: Proc 1
        Version: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5570 @ 2.93GHz            
        Upgrade: Socket LGA1366
        Socket Designation: Proc 2
        Version: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5570 @ 2.93GHz            
        Upgrade: Socket LGA1366