RFR : 8225345: Provide Cloud IAAS related info on Linux in the hs_err file

[David Holmes]

On 7/06/2019 8:21 pm, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 06/06/2019 14:59, Baesken, Matthias wrote:
>> Hello ,   from our experience /sys/class/dmi   is pretty stable .
>> Of course over time  the   product_name   and   chassis_asset_tag    
>> entries  could change  .
>>
> I assume the values may change too, maybe with new versions of the 
> infrastructure.
> 
> Have you looked at just printing the values of the interesting keys 
> (seems to be product_name, chassis_assert_tag and a few others) and not 
> attempt to match values to specific vendor strings? Many of the 
> interesting keys have the company name in the value anyway.

I agree. Ignoring the "should we do this" aspect, it seems preferable to 
just report whatever is present rather than having lists of known 
vendors for which we specialize the code. Though of course that 
information may not relate to a Cloud at all.

David

> -Alan