Custom Inspectors

(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)

In my unix/linux environment I need to build relevance statements of items not contained in a pkginfo (sun), lpp(aix) or rpm(linux). For example the version of fibre hba drivers and need to run a operating system command to get the answers/data to query.

Is there a facility for me to create my own Inspectors for example, the running of

commands to get information about a IBM fibre card. I could run a cron job to output this to a file on all hosts and then have bigfix parse the file, but I don’t want to create all kinds of scripts outside of bigfix to gather all this static info in files.

root # /usr/sbin/lscfg -v -l fcs*

fcs0 U787A.001.DPM11XL-P1-C4-T1 FC Adapter

Part Number…80P4543

EC Level…A

Serial Number…1B51403915

Manufacturer…001B

Customer Card ID Number…280B

FRU Number… 80P4544

Device Specific.(ZM)…3

Network Address…10000000C9465901

ROS Level and ID…02881955

Device Specific.(Z0)…1001206D

Device Specific.(Z1)…00000000

Device Specific.(Z2)…00000000

Device Specific.(Z3)…03000909

Device Specific.(Z4)…FF801413

Device Specific.(Z5)…02881955

Device Specific.(Z6)…06831955

Device Specific.(Z7)…07831955

Device Specific.(Z8)…20000000C9465901

Device Specific.(Z9)…TS1.91A5

Device Specific.(ZA)…T1D1.91A5

Device Specific.(ZB)…T2D1.91A5

Device Specific.(ZC)…00000000

Hardware Location Code…U787A.001.DPM11XL-P1-C4-T1