Question

I am writing a Perl script that will be deployed and executed on many servers. Some of my requirements are retrieving the manufacturer, model and serial number. Unfortunately I can’t seem to figure out how to do that. I’m not seeing any built in libraries to do this.

I’m not sure if I can use libraries that don’t come with Perl since I wouldn’t be able to include those when it gets executed on the other servers.

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

There’s a perl module called Parse::DMIDecode which will use the dmidecode program that Brian pointed out.