LXer: Interrogating a Linux Machine
 

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The other day, a client called upon me to perform a hardware and software inventory on all of the computers on his network. There weren't that many machines to inventory, but we needed to gather quite a bit of information about each one. The client was a Microsoft shop and so I had to deal with about an even mix of Windows XP and Vista with a few Windows 95, 98, and ME machines thrown in for good measure. So off I went, with an Excel spreadsheet in hand. I visited each machine in person. For each machine, I wanted the network configuration, the workgroup configuration, and the hardware configuration.

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