On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@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. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
