Overview
This article describes how discovery updates model_id and manufacturer for network devices and Linux and Windows servers. The model_id and manufacturer are reference fields. In general, a probe will gather both the model_id and manufacturer from a device and pass the string values to the MakeAndModelJS.fromNames() function along with a model_type. The model_type determines the table that is used to get the model_id. The table cmdb_model is used if model_type is empty.
Tables are used to find the model_id:
| Hardware | cmdb_hardware_product_model |
| Consumable | cmdb_consumable_product_model |
| Software | cmdb_software_product_model |
| Application | cmdb_application_product_model |
Network Devices (SNMP Discovery)
For network devices, the model_id and manufacturer are collected on the classification phase of discovery by the SNMP - Classify probe.
The following important OIDs determine which model and manufacturer are used:
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mgmt.mib-2.entityMIB.entityMIBObjects.entityPhysical.entPhysicalTable entPhysicalModelName
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mgmt.mib-2.entityMIB.entityMIBObjects.entityPhysical.entPhysicalTable entPhysicalMfgName
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mgmt.mib-2.system.sysObjectID
The model and manufacturer from Discovery Definition > Classification > SNMP System OIDs is used when sysObjectID is returned. The values returned by entPhysicalModelName and entPhysicalMfgNam are used if the sysObjectID value is not returned, or if there is no matching record for the sysObjectID under SNMP System OIDs.
Note – The model_id and manufacturer may alternate if the values for entPhysicalModelName and entPhysicalMfgName do not match the SNMP System OID values respectively and the sysObjectID is not returned consistently. Therefore, if possible, the values in the SNMP System OIDs should be updated to match what is returned by the device. Having two options to get model_id and manufacturer provides redundancy.
UNIX/Linux
Different distributions of UNIX/Linux use their own probe/sensors to collect the model_id and manufacturer.
The out-of-box probes/sensors that collect the model and manufacturer are:
| Probe | Command / Script |
| Linux - Hardware Information | dmidecode; echo dummy > /dev/null |
| HP-UX - Hardware Model | model |
| AIX - Hardware Model | lsattr -El sys0 -a modelname -F value |
| Solaris - Hardware Model | suntype.sh |
Windows
Windows devices model_id and manufacturer information is collected by the Windows - OS Information probe.
The WMI fields used for model and manufacturer are:
| Win32_ComputerSystem.Manufacturer |
| Win32_ComputerSystem.Model |
The following example shows the result of running a PowerShell command to collect model and manufacturer.