Hi all
I'd like to retrieve the Product Name on my Dell PowerEdge R620 system to use this information in a monitoring applicataion. Normally I would use
dmidecode -t system to see this information. This worked on PowerEdge R610 and other, older PowerEdge systems, but on the Dell R620, the data is just empty, as shown in the following output:
dmidecode -t system
# dmidecode 2.11
SMBIOS 2.7 present.
Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
Manufacturer:
Product Name:
Version: Not Specified
Serial Number: *******
UUID: 4C4C4544-0039-4D10-8044-C4C04F475A31
Wake-up Type: Power Switch
SKU Number: SKU=NotProvided;ModelName=
Family: Not Specified
Handle 0x0C00, DMI type 12, 5 bytes
System Configuration Options
Option 1: NVRAM_CLR: Clear user settable NVRAM areas and set defaults
Option 2: PWRD_EN: Close to enable password
Handle 0x2000, DMI type 32, 11 bytes
System Boot Information
Status: No errors detected
My BIOS:
dmidecode -t bios
# dmidecode 2.11
SMBIOS 2.7 present.
Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
Vendor:
Version: 2.0.19
Release Date: 08/29/2013
Address: 0xF0000
Runtime Size: 64 kB
ROM Size: 8192 kB
Characteristics:
ISA is supported
PCI is supported
PNP is supported
BIOS is upgradeable
BIOS shadowing is allowed
Boot from CD is supported
Selectable boot is supported
EDD is supported
Japanese floppy for Toshiba 1.2 MB is supported (int 13h)
5.25"/360 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
Serial services are supported (int 14h)
CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
ACPI is supported
USB legacy is supported
BIOS boot specification is supported
Function key-initiated network boot is supported
Targeted content distribution is supported
UEFI is supported
BIOS Revision: 2.0
Handle 0x0D00, DMI type 13, 22 bytes
BIOS Language Information
Language Description Format: Long
Installable Languages: 1
en|US|iso8859-1
Currently Installed Language: en|US|iso8859-1
Has anyone also expected this behaviour, and are there any solutions to this?