Tool/utility to extract a server's basic hardware innards

Question

I have a pile of approx 20 rack servers to move out of the office and onto ebay or somewhere.

Can anyone recommend a good tool that will display some basic info like CPU type/speed/count/cores, memory, disks, controller card?

Answer 1

A usb bootable linux distro and lshw.

Answer 2

For Windows, my personal favorite is Speccy.

If they're servers, use the service tags!

Answer 3

Take a look at Open-AudIT. http://www.open-audit.org

Caveat - I'm the author.

Answer 4

Cpuz rocks! also shows how many dimm slots, how many are populated, specs of memory and cpu chips... etc etc!

Answer 5

One good Option is 1) Lavasoft Everest

Answer 6

http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/en/

This is a great free open source option.

Answer 7

I would try Belarc Advisor for a simple and quick summary of information: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

For more detailed infomration, try the Microsoft Assessment & Planning Toolkit: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb977556.aspx

Answer 8

With a cd/usb live linux distro a mix of commands:

(dmidecode; (lspci; lspci -n)|sort; lshw; hdparm -I /dev/diskdevice) > $(hostname -f)_$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M).log

or

(dmidecode; (lspci; lspci -n)|sort; lshw; hdparm -I /dev/diskdevice) | tee -a $(hostname -f)_$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M).log