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