On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:54:19 -0500 Joshua Murphy <poiso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> > wrote: > > Excuse me for starting an off-topic thread, > > > > But do any of you guys/gals know of a Live CD distro that can > > perform hardware audit? i.e., detect installed processor model, RAM > > parameters & layout, etc. > > > > It's gotta be a Live CD because the boxes currently installed are > > running either VMware or XenServer and I am reluctant to open them > > up. So I guess I'll just shutdown the box, boot using the Live CD, > > record all important info, and reboot into the hypervisor. > > > > Rgds, > > Pretty much any livecd that'll boot can do the job... lspci -vv, > /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/meminfo, and fdisk -l (which'll catch any drives > the running kernel sees at least) are pretty standard, and it wouldn't > take much to include a script that calls those, dumps the output > somewhere, then reboots. For more extensive info, dmidecode and lshw > tend to give more detail, but are a little less 'standard'. Notably, > dmidecode gives things like per-slot ram information. > Software does indeed make this process so much easier. We use dmidecode for this too. All the machines in the data center run ocsng (http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org) to automate the entire process, but that's way beyond what the OP needs -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
