Where to collect information for Redfish System's Processors, Storage, Memory data

[Ren, Zhikui]

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>From: openbmc <openbmc-bounces+zhikui.ren=intel.com at lists.ozlabs.org>
>On Behalf Of Thang Nguyen
>Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 3:22 AM
>To: OpenBMC Maillist <openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org>
>Subject: Where to collect information for Redfish System's Processors,
>Storage, Memory data
>
>Hi,
>
>I am looking for how to support Redfish System schema which information
>from Host:
>
>- Processors: redfish/v1/Systems/system/Processors
>
>- Storage: redfish/v1/Systems/system/Storage
>
>- Memory: redfish/v1/Systems/system/Memory
>
>I looked into the bmcweb repository at redfish-core/lib/memory.hpp and
>redfish-core/lib/pcie.hpp but just see doGet() function to read data from
>dbus to report via Redfish. There is no doPost() function to post codes to
>Redfish.
>
>My questions are:
>
>1. How can Host BIOS collect information and send to BMC so that BMC can
>report via Redfish? via in-band Redfish?
>
>2. If the information is not from BIOS, how can BMC collect information?
>What recipes/repositories are used to collect information?
>
[Ren, Zhikui] https://github.com/openbmc/smbios-mdr is the service that populates dbus objects
>
>Thanks,
>
>Thang Q. Nguyen -