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For which OS/Platform(s) ?

Use the blcli Get command or a rest query to pull the data off the hardware/server info object on the server.

Would you care to give us an example of how you can get the hardware info of a specific server using the get command ?

there's some info here, but i'll admit it's not that intuitive: Using BMC Server Automation - RESTful Web Services - BMC Server Automation 8.6 - BMC Documentation

so:

blcli_execute Server getServerDBKeyByName blapp88-1.local

blcli_storeenv serverKey

blcli_execute GenericObject getRESTfulURI ${serverKey}

blcli_storeenv serverURI

blcli_execute Get "${serverURI}/"

blcli_storeenv resp1

echo "${resp1}" | xmllint --format -

so that lists all the 'stuff' you can get from the server.  if you look through the xml (i'm using xmllint to format the output because it was handy).  so you want an asset:

Asset examples - BMC Server Automation 8.6 - BMC Documentation

so

blcli_execute Get "${serverURI}/Assets/"

blcli_storeenv resp2

echo "${resp2}" | xmllint --format -

(i'm not putting in the output here because it's too long)

lists all the assets (but not the properties and other stuff that the first query did).

what's a little confusing here is that the 'SystemInfo' asset is 'Hardware Information' in live browse.  'System Info' (w/ a space) is 'SystemInfo' in live browse.

so now i can go down another level w/ the 'systeminfo' uri from resp2:

blcli_execute Get "${serverURI}/Assets/SystemInfo"

blcli_storeenv resp3

echo "${resp3}" | xmllint --format -

so you wanted 'Model' right ?

so looking in the output of resp3 you should see the uri for that:

echo "${resp3}" | xmllint --format - | grep Model

            <AssetAttributeValue name="Model" type="String" value="VMware Virtual Platform" uri="/id/SystemObject/Server/a279b6b7-c453-49fb-bf10-b1c6b6e0fb0a/Assets/SystemInfo/System/AssetAttributeValues/Model"/>

so you can get just that entry w/ the below or just process the /SystemInfo output.

blcli_execute Get "${serverURI}/Assets/SystemInfo/System/AssetAttributeValues/Model/"

blcli_storeenv resp4

echo "${resp4}" | xmllint --format -

which gives you:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<RESTXMLResponse>

  <AssetAttributeValueResponse>

    <AssetAttributeValue>

      <AssetAttributeValue name="Model" type="String" value="VMware Virtual Platform" uri="/id/SystemObject/Server/a279b6b7-c453-49fb-bf10-b1c6b6e0fb0a/Assets/SystemInfo/System/AssetAttributeValues/Model"/>

    </AssetAttributeValue>

  </AssetAttributeValueResponse>

</RESTXMLResponse>

and you can parse the xml and pull the 'value' tag out.

That's awesome Bill, thanks a lot for the example !