[Idea] Set hardware UUID on arm64 from /etc/machine-id

[yoshi314]

Your idea

I've had a problem with original fusioninventory agent - it had no facility to collect hw uuid from rpi4 machine. Because there likely is not one. Not sure how it varies across other arm boards.

I did a workaround by reading custom file with uuid, but since the agent tries to read /etc/machine-id in most cases for various containers - maybe try and use that for this platform?

[g-bougard]

Hi @yoshi314

have you some sample of /etc/machine-id content ?

[yoshi314]

Well, it's like uuid but without the '-' signs. Same amount of digits/letters. e.g. e3c1940a72c84b469e48762dad337785

On my installs i patched the agent to read a custom file if uuid was not available and that worked just fine with glpi.

[g-bougard]

Okay, so I understand this file contains only one line. So it would be easy to read.

Anyway, I don't see where to start for a patch as you didn't explain on which OS this happens. If you have a patch (even if this is for FI-Agent), you can provide it so I can backport in the best way.

[yoshi314]

it happens on arm64 in general. Old FA agent could not find hardware UUID, since it has no codepath for this architecture to do so.

Dmidecode does not work there. I had debian on r-pi4 at the time.

I can provide a patch against current codebase to achieve the expected result.

[g-bougard]

Then, feel free to submit a PR.