PhillipHuang has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all, There're about more than 200 pcs mainboards needed to check the hardware infomation（bios version, manufacturer name, chipset info, controller info, etc）.Is there any powerful perl module to do this job? I have tried Rex::Hardware, while it shows more info about software system. thanks, PH

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Re: Checking mainboard
by NetWallah (Canon) on Sep 14, 2012 at 03:52 UTC
    This is probably much more than you need, but the combinamtion of GLPI and OCS Inventory NG (Latter is more relevant to your requirements) will probably do the job, and then some. Both are free. Don't be put-off by the initial French - both sites have little flag icons that shows them in English.

    For your purposes, you could probably get by with just OCS, and if the standard plug-in does not provide enough information, you can easily add your own (perl) code.

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Re: Checking mainboard
by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Sep 14, 2012 at 05:47 UTC
    Parse::DMIDecode: 
    #!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Parse::DMIDecode;

my $decoder = Parse::DMIDecode->new(
              dmidecode  => "/usr/sbin/dmidecode",
              nowarnings => 1,
            );
$decoder->probe;

my @keywords = $decoder->keywords;

foreach my $keyword (@keywords) {
    printf("%s => %s\n",
            $keyword,
            $decoder->keyword($keyword)
        );
}

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