From: Mohit Sindhwani <mo_mail@...>
Date: 2007-08-31T00:36:38+09:00
Subject: Re: collecting remote system information

Kyle Schmitt wrote:
> I've worked on some projects before for this sort of thing, and Ed is right.
>
> It's not pretty.
>
> The only way to do it without really mucking about on each system is
> to get the data in the system-specific format, then munge it together
> into whatever global format you design.
>
> This means writing system specific code for ... well each system to test.
>
> There's a MS command line app some where on the MSDN site (complete
> with sample code) that can be used to gather lots of info for ms OSes
> (no I don't remember the name of the app, sorry), and then, depending
> on the unicies you're dealing with, data will be exposed by different
> system calls or virtual file systems.
>
>
> --Kyle
>
>   
There are a couple of packages on RubyForge that are cross-platform Ruby 
libraries for returning some of the basic information about the 
system.   The URL is: http://rubyforge.org/projects/sysutils

I just downloaded some of these for adding more information to one of 
the regular scripts that I run for gathering statistics about the 
running environment of some largely unattended scripts and to alert me 
if the status changes (mostly, I was interested in finding free disk space).

I'm not sure if these packages will give you something that helps.

Cheers,
Mohit.
8/30/2007 | 11:36 PM.