[hdt] dumping using tftp

[Philippe Johnston]

Hi

Yeah I ended up figuring it  out

My usage for the tool will be to gather hardware specs of new servers that we receive and servers we have in storage
I will then see if I can script something to phrase the dumps to update our inventory tool.

Our main issue is that gathering information manually by opening the server and having to locate each parts is time consuming and being humans we are most often lazy when it comes to manual tasks ☺
The issue we have at the moment is we have tons of servers sitting in storage and we don’t particularly know what parts are in them.
When users are requesting servers with specific requirements we have to open them up and try to find one rather than simply checking the specs from our inventory and locating it using the serial number.

Ideally it would be simpler if the tool could be run from a USB key and be capable of writing the data on that same key.
We could just boot the server from the key and it would automatically dump the info on it.
And we would then take the key to some other location for importing

But after I sent the email, I realised that we already had HDT running from our PXE that we use for OS installation, I just never noticed it.
So I will work with that.

thanks




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Philippe Johnston
IT-GNS - Centre de données
4101 Molson, Suite 203
Montréal, Québec H1Y 3J2
Office : 514-522-0984
Urgency Mobile: 514-668-5252
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From: Erwan Velu [mailto:erwanaliasr1 at gmail.com]
Sent: October-10-14 5:55 AM
To: Philippe Johnston
Cc: hdt at zytor.com
Subject: Re: [hdt] dumping using tftp

I'm not sure to get your point properly.

If you need to upload a result to a tftp server, you need to PXE boot hdt to gain the network service.
HDT can be booted in PXE by using the hdt.c32 which is available with every syslinux release.

Does it make much more meaning ?

I also would be very interesting on what is your usage of HDT and expectations ;o)

Erwan,

2014-10-09 19:19 GMT+02:00 Philippe Johnston <philippe.johnston at ubisoft.com<mailto:philippe.johnston at ubisoft.com>>:
Hello,

I’m not quite sure I understand how do you use HDT for dumping over tftp server.
The wiki on dumping does not offer much details on how to set this up.
From my understanding is you need to run pxelinux somewhere but being that HDT is a bootable cd ISO,
I don’t see how I can get HDT up from a TFTP server without the need to install something on that TFTP server.

Is there a more detailed wiki on the process of how to setup the tftp server so that it will start HDT and dump info?

Thank you.





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Philippe Johnston
IT-GNS - Centre de données
4101 Molson, Suite 203
Montréal, Québec H1Y 3J2
Office : 514-522-0984<tel:514-522-0984>
Urgency Mobile: 514-668-5252<tel:514-668-5252>
philippe.johnston at ubisoft.com<mailto:philippe.johnston at ubisoft.com>

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