[Durham] meeting tomorrow / advice on PXE utility please?

[Richard Mortimer]

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Hi Mark,

On 14/09/2015 16:35, mark wrote:

The one tool I know of is 'lshw' that does a pretty good job of
probing a system.


I don't know of anything pre-canned but a quick look says that lshw is
present on the system rescue cd.

http://www.sysresccd.org/Detailed-packages-list

I'm not sure if it can be PXE booted but it certainly could be booted
from either USB or CDROM (I'd guess any laptop that is worth re-using
could probably boot off of either of those these days).

Update: I found the following which suggests you can use sysresccd via
PXE.
http://www.sysresccd.org/news/2008/02/10/manage-remote-servers-using-sys
temrescuecd/

As far as getting it off the machine I don't think it would be too
hard to let the laptop autoconfigure network and then just ssh the
data into a suitable capture program on a remote server i.e.

lshw | ssh me at server.example.org /home/me/savehwinfo.sh

The page I mention above has a link to a page about getting the PXE to
autorun. Some of the examples there are very similar to what you want
to do!

http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_Run_your_own_scripts_with_a
utorun

A bit of scripting required but nothing too massive.

Richard


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