CentOS 7 show error for smbios

bearandy · August 28, 2018, 2:43am

Hi,

We want to list CentOS hardware information. It works on before the version CentOS 6.
But it show error on CentOS 7.

The analyses
unique values whose(it != “”) of (it as string as trimmed string) of values “serial_number” of structures “system_information” of smbios

Could anyone help us?

Thanks.

mangan · August 28, 2018, 2:33pm

Have you run this locally on one of the CentOS 7 boxes with qna? In my environment, I have a CentOS 7 (7.5) box and the relevance you posted above returns successfully.

cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core)

Q: unique values whose (it !="") of (it as string as trimmed string) of values “serial_number” of structures “system_information” of smbios
A: VMware-56 4d 29 b7 b9 89 ef 13-f4 04 f4 73 75 58 92 e1

bearandy · August 30, 2018, 2:50am

Hi,

How do we use QNA on it local?

Thanks.

bearandy · August 30, 2018, 4:20am

Hi,

And the error message is “dmi inspector error createing dmi.info” How could we fix it?

Thanks.

mwolff · August 30, 2018, 2:48pm

Are those devices UEFI enabled, by any chance?

Here’s an easy litmus test; if you get the same error just testing for the existence of DMI, it’s likely a UEFI machine or, if that particular issue has been resolved, it’s some other issue:

exists smbios

cmcannady · August 31, 2018, 3:47am

@bearandy the local QNA on Linux is located at:

/opt/BESClient/bin/qna

You can also refer to the Common File Locations documentation.

bearandy · September 5, 2018, 1:45am

Hi,

I create a CASE for it. And it seems will release 9.5.10 to fix it. Thanks for everyone’s reply.

Thanks.

masonje · September 5, 2018, 3:15pm

“It’s all fixed in the next version”