From 82a4e21cf768f2f408df52f16db64539881580fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Hartmann <chris@lollyrock.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 17:37:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add sys_info resource to get information about the hostname

---
 lib/inspec/resource.rb    |  1 +
 lib/resources/sys_info.rb | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 lib/resources/sys_info.rb

diff --git a/lib/inspec/resource.rb b/lib/inspec/resource.rb
index 9039db1c8..d43530112 100644
--- a/lib/inspec/resource.rb
+++ b/lib/inspec/resource.rb
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ require 'resources/service'
 require 'resources/shadow'
 require 'resources/ssl'
 require 'resources/ssh_conf'
+require 'resources/sys_info'
 require 'resources/users'
 require 'resources/vbscript'
 require 'resources/windows_feature'
diff --git a/lib/resources/sys_info.rb b/lib/resources/sys_info.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..70541ae2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/resources/sys_info.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# encoding: utf-8
+module Inspec::Resources
+  # this resource returns additional system informatio
+  class System < Inspec.resource(1)
+    name 'sys_info'
+
+    desc 'Use the user InSpec system resource to test for operating system properties.'
+    example "
+      describe sysinfo do
+        its('hostname') { should eq 'example.com' }
+      end
+    "
+
+    def hostname
+      os = inspec.os
+      if os.linux?
+        inspec.command('hostname').stdout.chomp
+      elsif os.windows?
+        # windows hostname
+        inspec.powershell('$env:computername').stdout.chomp
+      else
+        return skip_resource 'The `system` resource is not supported on your OS yet.'
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end