Added function to parse dmidecode output

agent.py

@@ -25,8 +25,70 @@ class ServerData:
     def __init__(self):
         self.hostname = os.uname().nodename
         self.public_ip = self.get_public_ip()
+        self.dmidecode_data = parse_dmidecode_output()
         logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
 
+    def parse_dmidecode_output():
+        '''
+        Example dmidecode output:
+
+        Handle 0x0069, DMI type 20, 35 bytes
+        Memory Device Mapped Address
+            Starting Address: 0x00600000000
+            Ending Address: 0x007FFFFFFFF
+            Range Size: 8 GB
+            Physical Device Handle: 0x0067
+            Memory Array Mapped Address Handle: 0x006A
+            Partition Row Position: Unknown
+            Interleave Position: 2
+            Interleaved Data Depth: 2
+
+        Handle 0x006A, DMI type 19, 31 bytes
+        Memory Array Mapped Address
+            Starting Address: 0x00000000000
+            Ending Address: 0x007FFFFFFFF
+            Range Size: 32 GB
+            Physical Array Handle: 0x005E
+            Partition Width: 4
+        '''
+        if os.path.isfile('/usr/sbin/dmidecode'):
+            try:
+                # ignore error messages produced by the command
+                output = subprocess.check_output(['sudo', '/usr/sbin/dmidecode'], stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL).decode('utf-8')
+
+                # each section is separated by two newlines
+                sections = output.split('\n\n')
+                parsed_sections = []
+                for section in sections:
+                    
+                    # each line in a section is separated by a newline
+                    lines = section.split('\n')
+
+                    # first line contains the DMI type - only need number
+                    match = re.search(r'DMI type (\d+)', lines[0])
+                    if match:
+                        dmi_type = int(match.group(1))
+                    else:   # skip if no DMI type in this section
+                        continue
+
+                    # each section is a dictionary with DMIType as key
+                    section_dict = {'DMIType': dmi_type}
+                    if len(lines) > 1:
+                        section_dict['description'] = lines[1].strip()
+
+                    for line in lines[2:]:  # skip first two lines - already processed
+
+                        # each line has tabs at the beginning and space(maybe optional) between key and value
+                        match = re.match(r'\t(.+):\s*(.*)', line)
+                        if match:
+                            key, value = match.groups()
+                            section_dict[key] = value
+                    parsed_sections.append(section_dict)
+                return parsed_sections
+            except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
+                pass
+        return []
+
     def get_ram_and_disk(self):
         with open('/proc/meminfo', 'r') as f:
             meminfo = f.read()