From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-08-30T22:53:49+09:00
Subject: Re: collecting remote system information

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Chris Henderson wrote:
> I am relatively new to coding and to ruby.
> 
> I have seen programs like IBM Director installs an agent on a client
> machine and gather all kinds of information remotely; eg. amount of
> ram, processor type and speed, machine type and serial number, OS
> running, netbios name etc.
> 
> Would it be possible to write something like this with ruby. Ideally,
> the ruby program will run on Fedora or OpenBSD and the clients are
> Windows XP machines. Once the program is being run it will ask for the
> Windows box's user name and password to gather all the information and
> will dump it in STDOUT.
> 
> Any hints or tips on where to start looking to write something like
> this would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
This is complicated enough that I'd recommend buying a package that
already works rather than building something. This isn't a particularly
good beginner's project, and I'm not sure how you'd test it. And I have
concerns about anybody going off and asking for my user ID and password.
*Real* IT solutions just don't work that way.

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