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NAME

Parse::DMIDecode - Interface to SMBIOS under Linux using dmidecode

SYNOPSIS

use strict;
use Parse::DMIDecode ();

my $decoder = new Parse::DMIDecode;
$decoder->probe; # Actively probe using dmidecode
 
# Manually supply your own dmidecode output to be parsed
# $decoder->parse(qx(sudo /usr/sbin/dmidecode));
 
printf("System: %s, %s",
        $decoder->keyword("system-manufacturer"),
        $decoder->keyword("system-product-name"),
    );

DESCRIPTION

This module provides an OO interface to SMBIOS information through the dmidecode command which is known to work under a number of Linux, BSD and BeOS variants.

This module is still actively under development, is no not yet feature complete and still needs to be fully documented. There is a possibility accessor method names may change before the final release.

METHODS

new

my $decoder = Parse::DMIDecode->new(
                    dmidecode => "/usr/sbin/dmidecode"),
                    nowarnings => 1
                );

probe

$decoder->probe;

parse

my $raw = qx(sudo /usr/sbin/dmidecode);
$decoder->prase($raw);

keyword

my $serial_number = $decoder->keyword("system-serial-number");

keywords

my @keywords = $decoder->keywords;
my @bios_keywords = $decoder->keywords("bios");

for my $keyword (@bios_keywords) {
    printf("%s => %s\n",
            $keyword,
            $decoder->keyword($keyword)
        );
}

handle_addresses

my @addresses = $decoder->handle_addresses;

get_handles

use Parse::DMIDecode::Constants qw(@TYPES);

# Available groups to query: bios, system, baseboard,
#    chassis, processor, memory, cache, connector, slot
for my $handle ($decoder->get_handles( group => "memory" )) {
    printf(">> Found handle at %s (%s):\n%s\n",
            $handle->address,
            $TYPES[$handle->dmitype],
            $handle->raw
        );
}

smbios_version

my $smbios_version = $decoder->smbios_version;

dmidecode_version

my $dmidecode_version = $decoder->dmidecode_version;

Returns the version number of the copy of dmidecode that was used to create the source data that was parsed. This value may not be available when using older versions of dmidecode.

table_location

my $memory_address = $decoder->table_location;

structures

my $total_structures = $decoder->structures;

SEE ALSO

examples/*.pl, http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/, http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/, http://sourceforge.net/projects/x86info/, http://www.dmtf.org/standards/smbios, biosdecode(8), dmidecode(8), vpddecode(8)

VERSION

$Id: DMIDecode.pm 803 2006-10-22 11:36:22Z nicolaw $

AUTHOR

Nicola Worthington <nicolaw@cpan.org>

http://perlgirl.org.uk

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COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2006 Nicola Worthington.

This software is licensed under The Apache Software License, Version 2.0.

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0