Hardware Auditing 1

[iwannabeit]

Hi, hopefully this will be an easy one...

What would the be the best solution to scan the hardware(from the server) on our workstations? I can see the workstations on active directory, but when i go in to see the specs that i have to record (OS, Processor, RAM), the device manager doesnt give enough detail, it wont list the proc or anything like that... any ideas or better solutions? thnx in advance

...Hey now...

 

[porkchopexpress]

Running systeminfo >c:\info.txt from the command prompt would dump all of the systeminfo into a text file but it requires a local visit.


PSinfo will allow you to retreiv the system info remotly.

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsInfo.html

 

[greg0303]

You might want to look at WMI Win32 instances. There are some easy VBscripts that you can put together to query that sort of thing, for example this would get you the operating system for the computer you query.

strComputer = YourComputerName
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colOperatingSystems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem")

For Each objOperatingSystem in colOperatingSystems
OS = "Operating System: " & objOperatingSystem.Caption & " " & objOperatingSystem.Version & "&nbsp"
OS_SP = "Service Pack: " & objOperatingSystem.ServicePackMajorVersion & "." & objOperatingSystem.ServicePackMinorVersion
Next

Msgbox OS
Msgbox OS_SP