Hardware indentification through a ssh session

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 01:50:26PM +0300, 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.
> Advice and thanks in advance

You could try 'dmidecode'.  That might give it to you.

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