It seems that some PowerEdge boxes don't have Product Name available via the DMI interface. On mine, the command :
dmidecode -s system-product-name
yields an empty line. (It should be something like "R730" or at least something that contains that value.
(Running ipmitool or inspecting /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_name yield the same result.)
So it seems that the value just isn't set by whatever step of the manufacturing process *should have* set it.
Is there a good way around this? Something else to check? Some other value from which I can *infer* the product name?
Is there a way to correct the value by hand?
It looks like there's a many-to-one mapping of motherboard type (aka, baseboard-product-name) to product name, but there doesn't seem to be any publicly available record of the various motherboard that might have been used for the differing products. (Plus, I assume that it would be subject to updates over time.)