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<div> Fog ? More an imaging tool but iirc has some.register / audit stuff built in</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Sent from my Samsung device</div></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Richard Patterson <richard@helpquick.co.uk> <br>Date: 14/09/2015 17:29 (GMT+00:00) <br>To: Durham Linux User Group mailing list <durham@mailman.lug.org.uk> <br>Subject: Re: [Durham] meeting tomorrow / advice on PXE utility please? <br><br>Yes, meeting is tomorrow... Apologies for lack of reminder...<br><br>What kind of basic info are you after? Seems lshw might be too detailed...<br><br>Might be able to hand craft a script to pull the info from /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/meminfo<br><br>Regards<br><br>Richard<br><br>-- <br>Richard Patterson<br><br>Mob: 07921512459<br><br>I apologise for terse replies when using my iPhone.<br><br>> On 14 Sep 2015, at 16:35, mark <mark@aktivix.org> wrote:<br>> <br>> Hi all,<br>> <br>> we're meeting tomorrow night yeah?<br>> <br>> Also, can I ask a question for which I do not know the correct search<br>> terms to put into an engine:<br>> <br>> Say I have a pile of 25 old laptops which I want to audit (i.e. get some<br>> basic hardware information out of them into a spreadsheet). I'm sure<br>> there must be a tool to do this by connecting them all (one at a time)<br>> to another machine using an ethernet X-over cable (or 1GB/s port),<br>> booting each client machine to be audited from that 2-node network,<br>> serving up a PXE payload from the managing machine, reading the hardware<br>> info from the client and writing it to a file.<br>> <br>> Can anyone point me to this tool please?<br>> <br>> Cheers folks,<br>> Mark<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Durham mailing list - Durham@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/durham<br>> http://www.nelug.org.uk/<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Durham mailing list - Durham@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/durham<br>http://www.nelug.org.uk/<br></body></html>