Get HardwareID on Linux (Ubuntu & RaspberryPi)

[minhajakhterkhan199]

Please advise which method I can use to get HardwareID or Serial Number in linux (Ubuntu & RaspberryPi)

[shirou]

What kind of HardwareID or Serial Number? CPU, disk, and so on. Or https://stackoverflow.com/ might be more useful site.

[minhajakhterkhan199]

which function I could use to get below UUID... In addition, how to get Serial / Mac address of device?? minhaj@minhaj-VirtualBox:~$ sudo dmidecode | grep -i uuid [sudo] password for minhaj: UUID: 075447D9-25EA-4B07-BFDB-4EBC42C7CB7C

[minhajakhterkhan199]

Waiting for your response

[minhajakhterkhan199]

@shirou Waiting for your response

[minhajakhterkhan199]

@shirou Still waiting for your response

[scottstensland]

just search this repo for uuid which will lead you to

https://github.com/shirou/gopsutil/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=uuid&type=

which points you to HostID ... below makes that call and shows you the UUID

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "github.com/shirou/gopsutil/host"
)

func show_uuid() {

    hostStat, err := host.Info()
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    fmt.Println("uuid ", hostStat.HostID)
}

func main() {

    show_uuid()
}

[minhajakhterkhan199]

Dear, hostStat.HostID is not returning UUID... hostStat.HostID is returning below uuid 001c12ff-e764-4367-be87-c186dcb080b9

But we requires, UUID: 075447D9-25EA-4B07-BFDB-4EBC42C7CB7C sudo dmidecode | grep -i uuid

    Manufacturer: innotek GmbH
    Product Name: VirtualBox
    Version: 1.2
    Serial Number: 0
    UUID: 075447D9-25EA-4B07-BFDB-4EBC42C7CB7C
    Wake-up Type: Power Switch
    SKU Number: Not Specified
    Family: Virtual Machine

Please advise

[Lomanic]

The original python psutil lib does not seem to include information from the BIOS. @shirou may find it outside of this lib scope to implement new functions for that.

Why don't you just call dmidecode -s system-uuid from Go with os/exec if you want this exact information?

Regarding https://github.com/shirou/gopsutil/issues/425#issuecomment-331441872 and how to get MAC addresses, this is as simple as the following (via golang-nuts):

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net"
)

func main() {
    interfaces, _ := net.Interfaces()
    for _, inter := range interfaces {
        fmt.Println(inter.Name, inter.HardwareAddr)
    }
}

[Lomanic]

Closing: outside of gopsutil scope, no feedback from issue opener in months.