accessing hardware information using python

[Johhny]

Hello,

I am currently looking to write a utility in python that will monitor
the statis of a RAID card within linux. The card in Question is the LSI
SAS1064 as the tools provided by the vendor to monitor the software
does not suit our requirements.

However I am unsure how to convert dmidecode information like so :

Handle 0x0025
DMI type 10, 6 bytes.
On Board Device Information
Type: SCSI Controller
Status: Enabled
Description: LSI serial-ATA #1


Into anything that I can use to extract information using python? Does
anyone have any ideas or any recommended reading about this matter?

Regards,

Johhny

[sjdevnull@yahoo.com]

Re: accessing hardware information using python

Johhny wrote:[color=blue]
> I am currently looking to write a utility in python that will monitor
> the statis of a RAID card within linux. The card in Question is the LSI
> SAS1064 as the tools provided by the vendor to monitor the software
> does not suit our requirements.[/color]

What are your requirements?
[color=blue]
> However I am unsure how to convert dmidecode information like so :
>
> Handle 0x0025
> DMI type 10, 6 bytes.
> On Board Device Information
> Type: SCSI Controller
> Status: Enabled
> Description: LSI serial-ATA #1[/color]

If dmidecode is a command-line program, maybe something using os.popen:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os

dmiOutput = os.popen("dmide code", "r")

status = None
for line in dmiOutput:
line = line.strip()
if line.startswith ("Status: "):
status = line.split("Sta tus: ", 1)[1]
break

if status is not None:
print "Status is: ", status
else:
print "No status information found"