[Spacewalk-list] getDmi in api returns empty

[A Robinson]

doing rhn-profile-sync doesn't solve the problem unfortunately.
For information, I'm using spacewalk version 0.6 on 32bit Centos 5.3.

Any suggestions what to do next?

Thanks

A Robinson

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Justin Sherrill <jsherril at redhat.com> wrote:
> A Robinson wrote:
>> They're real Dell servers. Really odd thing is some are identical
>> hardware, -- in one case the difference being one is used as a
>> spacewalk proxy and one isn't. Since the information gets into
>> spacewalk (and is shown on the hardware tab) I was suspicious it's a
>> spacewalk problem.
>
> This is really odd.  Does running 'rhn-profile-sync' on any of the
> clients fix the issue?
>
> -Justin
>
>
>>>
>>> On 11/11/09 4:02 PM, Colin Coe wrote:
>>>> Are they Xen para-virtualised guests?
>>> This actually happens for me as well, using RHN Satellite 5.3.  I have
>>> 2x HP dc5850 systems that have their DMI Info tab fully populated in the
>>> Satellite UI, but system.getDmi returns empty, just like the OP.
>>> However, I also have some Dell systems that system.getDmi works fine for.
>>>
>>> I haven't tried with Spacewalk yet, but sounds like it is similar.
>>>
>>> Vinny
>>
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