Hardware indentification through a ssh session

[ttanski-iRg7kjdsKiH3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Kihara Muriithi wrote:

> Lets say you have a dell boxs somewhere remote. Is there a way one can tell
> the hardware model of the equipments other than physically being there?  I
> have pocked around /proc and dmesg and all I see are generic stuff. I am
> looking for stuff like serial number and other details needed for hardware
> inventory.

If you install Dell's Open Manage (OM) tools, this information is 
available via SNMP as well as via thier web interface on port 1311.

Terry

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  Terry Tanski, BSc RHCE
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