Jira (FACT-3195) Inconsistency in disks serial number facts

Issue Type:	Bug
Assignee:	Unassigned
Components:	Facter 4
Created:	2023/04/01 11:03 AM
Priority:	Normal
Reporter:	Romain Tartière

On FreeBSD, starting with Facter 4.0.27, disks serial numbers are reported with the serial_number key.

On Linux, starting with Facter 4.2.6, disks serial numbers are reported with the serial key.

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Romain Tartière

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Apr 1, 2023, 2:08:02 PM4/1/23

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Change By:	Romain Tartière

On FreeBSD, starting with Facter 4.0.27, disks serial numbers are reported with the _serial_number_ key :
{{
disks => {
  ada0 => {
    model => "Samsung SSD 850 PRO 512GB",
    serial_number => "S250NXAG959927J",
    size => "476 . 94 GiB",
    size_bytes => 512110190592
  }
}
os.family => FreeBSD}}

On Linux, starting with Facter 4.2.6, disks serial numbers are reported with the _serial_ key :

{{disks => {
  sda => {
    model => "INTEL SSDSC2BB48",
    serial => "BTWA617304H8480FGN",
    size => "447 . 13 GiB",
    size_bytes => 480103981056,
    type => "ssd",
    vendor => "ATA",
    wwn => "0x55cd2e404c21e895"
  },
  sdb => {
    model => "INTEL SSDSC2BB48",
    serial => "PHWA634503Q5480FGN",
    size => "447.13 GiB",
    size_bytes => 480103981056,
    type => "ssd",
    vendor => "ATA",
    wwn => "0x55cd2e414d4691b4"
  }
}
os.family => Debian}}

Romain Tartière

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Apr 1, 2023, 2:09:01 PM4/1/23

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Change By:	Romain Tartière

On FreeBSD, starting with Facter 4.0.27, disks serial numbers are reported with the _serial_number_ key:
{{

disks => {
  ada0 => {
    model => "Samsung SSD 850 PRO 512GB",
    serial_number => "S250NXAG959927J",

size => "476.94 GiB",

size_bytes => 512110190592
}
}
os.family => FreeBSD

}}

On Linux, starting with Facter 4.2.6, disks serial numbers are reported with the _serial_ key:

{{ disks => {

  sda => {
    model => "INTEL SSDSC2BB48",
    serial => "BTWA617304H8480FGN",

    size => "447.13 GiB",
    size_bytes => 480103981056,
    type => "ssd",
    vendor => "ATA",
    wwn => "0x55cd2e404c21e895"
  },
  sdb => {
    model => "INTEL SSDSC2BB48",
    serial => "PHWA634503Q5480FGN",
    size => "447.13 GiB",
    size_bytes => 480103981056,
    type => "ssd",
    vendor => "ATA",
    wwn => "0x55cd2e414d4691b4"
  }
}
os.family => Debian

}}

Romain Tartière

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Apr 1, 2023, 2:10:02 PM4/1/23

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Romain Tartière commented on

Re: Inconsistency in disks serial number facts

lib/schema/facter.yaml suggest the key should be 'serial_number'

Romain Tartière

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Re: Inconsistency in disks serial number facts

Also the wwn reported on Linux is not documented in lib/schema/facter.yaml.

What should we do here? Must we duplicate serial into serial_number on Linux for backwards compatibility?

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