linux hardware inventory program

Greg Rundlett greg.rundlett at gmail.com
Fri Mar 21 21:39:57 EDT 2008


lshw as in ls hardware or "Hardware Lister" is a pretty decent
solution.  And it comes in a graphical front-end too gtk-lshw
http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter

man lshw

DESCRIPTION
       lshw is a small tool to extract detailed information on the
hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory con‐
       figuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU
version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. on
DMI-capable
       x86 or IA-64 systems and on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4
is known to work).

       It currently supports DMI (x86 and IA-64 only), OpenFirmware
device tree (PowerPC only), PCI/AGP, CPUID (x86), IDE/ATA/ATAPI, PCM‐
       CIA (only tested on x86), SCSI and USB.
[snip]

lshw supports XML output so you can build a reporting system up with it.

I've also used phpsysinfo which is presented through a web interface.
 It can run on seemingly just about anything that supports PHP.
http://phpsysinfo.sourceforge.net/ Like lshw, I believe it does XML
out and offers many languages for the UI.



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