From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RvQfk-0003Xz-Bl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:52:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D563E0639; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 09:51:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7EF9E0639 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 09:50:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbdr12 with SMTP id dr12so1428508wgb.10 for ; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:50:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=VnLwjgBWpUxxBErXPnmxQMx7Ms8sQQDTZ50jD9+8Ie8=; b=tEkSBxNJQbvbxHRz8G0fUm89fF2wT4VVlBPXVagBobVfBjNmu8vWFLsXu6Dls/hwBY LxAUZ3Bfo61wbP5Vh6oGzamFrOr2lhMwEuTSnURDh4wlhxOd5mnSt+0pEf6jJ0ZVoUD6 IUf1Op/WLccNWuBbrTRDatkNkyyPOO+wS9Tn8= Received: by 10.180.90.194 with SMTP id by2mr1643391wib.5.1328781047194; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:50:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-215-2-107.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.2.107]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ft8sm5574189wib.11.2012.02.09.01.50.44 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:50:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 11:49:53 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit? Message-ID: <20120209114953.2672fb1b@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a31d78f5-92c4-4f33-83f7-9ae793aae699 X-Archives-Hash: 648a2204080e444d6d08f1ebe67bf284 On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:54:19 -0500 Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Pandu Poluan > 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.mckinnon@gmail.com