[Grml] grml for hardware inventorying

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Ernesto Domato

2011-02-24 03:56:42 UTC

Hi. Today I received a mail from a friend asking me if I know any tool
to make hardware inventorying and I remember using one Linux bootable
from floppy that did that but at tis time is too old and obsolete (and
I don't remember its name either :-) ).

So, I was thinking if grml comes with some kind of this software that
could save the information on a USB or through network.

Doing a fast search on Debian repository there's something called
"ocsinventory" but seems not to be part of grml (maybe I should
remaster a CD with it).

And the "hardware detection tool" that you can use at boot time is not
usable for this since I didn't find a way to save the information to a
device not network so is hard to inventory about 50 computers with it.

Thanks for all.
Ernesto.

William Gardella

2011-02-24 05:13:25 UTC

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Ernesto,

grml offers the `grml-hwinfo' package, which has various hardware detection options and saves results to a tarball suitable for saving to a drive, transmitting over a network, etc.  Perhaps this will be useful to your friend, with a small persistent live grml system.

-wgg

On Feb 23, 2011 10:56 PM, Ernesto Domato <edomat at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi. Today I received a mail from a friend asking me if I know any tool

to make hardware inventorying and I remember using one Linux bootable

from floppy that did that but at tis time is too old and obsolete (and

I don't remember its name either :-) ).

So, I was thinking if grml comes with some kind of this software that

could save the information on a USB or through network.

Doing a fast search on Debian repository there's something called

"ocsinventory" but seems not to be part of grml (maybe I should

remaster a CD with it).

And the "hardware detection tool" that you can use at boot time is not

usable for this since I didn't find a way to save the information to a

device not network so is hard to inventory about 50 computers with it.

Thanks for all.

Ernesto.

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Timo Ballin

2011-02-24 21:11:56 UTC

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It quite easy to do with grml:

I have a PXE boot set up which identify the hardware for an automated
recovery:

Basicaly I load via boot options a perl script ( netscript=server/file)
which mounts a nfs drive, does a "hwinfo" converts the output to XML
and saves that to the nfs, I use only "hwinfo --bios" to get some serial
numbers - but "hwinfo --all" should to the trick for you.

XML because its quite nice to query the hwinfo information with xpath.

Timo

Post by Ernesto Domato
Hi. Today I received a mail from a friend asking me if I know any tool
to make hardware inventorying and I remember using one Linux bootable
from floppy that did that but at tis time is too old and obsolete (and
I don't remember its name either :-) ).
So, I was thinking if grml comes with some kind of this software that
could save the information on a USB or through network.
Doing a fast search on Debian repository there's something called
"ocsinventory" but seems not to be part of grml (maybe I should
remaster a CD with it).
And the "hardware detection tool" that you can use at boot time is not
usable for this since I didn't find a way to save the information to a
device not network so is hard to inventory about 50 computers with it.
Thanks for all.
Ernesto.
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Ernesto Domato

2011-02-24 03:56:42 UTC

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William Gardella

2011-02-24 05:13:25 UTC

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Ernesto,

grml offers the `grml-hwinfo' package, which has various hardware detection options and saves results to a tarball suitable for saving to a drive, transmitting over a network, etc.  Perhaps this will be useful to your friend, with a small persistent live grml system.

-wgg

On Feb 23, 2011 10:56 PM, Ernesto Domato <edomat at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi. Today I received a mail from a friend asking me if I know any tool

to make hardware inventorying and I remember using one Linux bootable

from floppy that did that but at tis time is too old and obsolete (and

I don't remember its name either :-) ).

So, I was thinking if grml comes with some kind of this software that

could save the information on a USB or through network.

Doing a fast search on Debian repository there's something called

"ocsinventory" but seems not to be part of grml (maybe I should

remaster a CD with it).

And the "hardware detection tool" that you can use at boot time is not

usable for this since I didn't find a way to save the information to a

device not network so is hard to inventory about 50 computers with it.

Thanks for all.

Ernesto.

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Timo Ballin

2011-02-24 21:11:56 UTC

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Ernesto Domato

2011-02-24 03:56:42 UTC

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William Gardella

2011-02-24 05:13:25 UTC

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Ernesto,

grml offers the `grml-hwinfo' package, which has various hardware detection options and saves results to a tarball suitable for saving to a drive, transmitting over a network, etc.  Perhaps this will be useful to your friend, with a small persistent live grml system.

-wgg

On Feb 23, 2011 10:56 PM, Ernesto Domato <edomat at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi. Today I received a mail from a friend asking me if I know any tool

to make hardware inventorying and I remember using one Linux bootable

from floppy that did that but at tis time is too old and obsolete (and

I don't remember its name either :-) ).

So, I was thinking if grml comes with some kind of this software that

could save the information on a USB or through network.

Doing a fast search on Debian repository there's something called

"ocsinventory" but seems not to be part of grml (maybe I should

remaster a CD with it).

And the "hardware detection tool" that you can use at boot time is not

usable for this since I didn't find a way to save the information to a

device not network so is hard to inventory about 50 computers with it.

Thanks for all.

Ernesto.

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