It quite easy to do with grml:
I have a PXE boot set up which identify the hardware for an automated recovery:
Basicaly I load via boot options a perl script ( netscript=server/file) which mounts a nfs drive, does a "hwinfo" converts the output to XML and saves that to the nfs, I use only "hwinfo --bios" to get some serial numbers - but "hwinfo --all" should to the trick for you.
XML because its quite nice to query the hwinfo information with xpath.
Timo
Am 24.02.2011 04:56, schrieb Ernesto Domato:
Hi. Today I received a mail from a friend asking me if I know any tool to make hardware inventorying and I remember using one Linux bootable from floppy that did that but at tis time is too old and obsolete (and I don't remember its name either :-) ).
So, I was thinking if grml comes with some kind of this software that could save the information on a USB or through network.
Doing a fast search on Debian repository there's something called "ocsinventory" but seems not to be part of grml (maybe I should remaster a CD with it).
And the "hardware detection tool" that you can use at boot time is not usable for this since I didn't find a way to save the information to a device not network so is hard to inventory about 50 computers with it.
Thanks for all. Ernesto. _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - Grml@mur.at http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://grml.supersized.org/