dmidecode bug

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • We are impacted by this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1048207
  • We use dmidecode to read the vendor serial numbers for HP, Dell, etc hardware- and this is a primary key for inventory and other automation we use in building and deployment.
  • Seeing this.. 
# dmidecode 2.11
SMBIOS 2.8 present.
# SMBIOS implementations newer than version 2.7 are not
# fully supported by this version of dmidecode.


[root@mybox init.d]# rpm -qf /usr/sbin/dmidecode
dmidecode-2.11-2.el6_1.x86_64

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.4
  • dmidecode-2.11-2.el6_1

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