On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@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.

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