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Today I needed to look up the warranty info on one of my ESX servers -- I knew I had it in a spreadsheet somewhere, but it turned to be quicker to just look it up from the console using "dmidecode". The service tag is listed as the Serial Number under System Information.

 

This works for regular Linux servers too:

 

[root@myesxserver root]# /usr/sbin/dmidecode |grep -A4 "System Information"

System Information

        Manufacturer: Dell Inc.

        Product Name: PowerEdge R710

        Version: Not Specified

        Serial Number: Hxxxxx1

 

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A few links related to virualization and/or systems administration that I recently found interesting enough to bookmark (from my del.icio.us feed)


 

 

 

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Puppet + git

Posted by Matthew Snodderly Jan 27, 2010

This is an interesting idea -- instead of running puppet in traditional client-server mode where the configuration is pushed from the server, replacing the puppetmaster server with a git repository, and let the managed servers pull their configs from git.

 

Scaling Puppet with distributed version control

 

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http://www.devopsdays.org/ghent09/presentations/agile-infrastructure-teyo-tyree/project/project.html

 

 

 

sysadmin 2.0

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Matthew Snodderly

Matthew Snodderly

 Member since: Jun 13, 2008

sysadmin 2.0 Virtualization, infrastructure automation, configuration management, cloud stuff etc. Mostly links to things I think are interesting.

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