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?

The way the title is written, it sounds like you want to actually pull the innards out, so I'd recommend one of these: http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200307439_200307439 — Ward - Reinstate Monica, Dec 02 '11 at 06:56

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 02 '11 at 02:38

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For Windows, my personal favorite is Speccy.

If they're servers, use the service tags!

answered Dec 02 '11 at 02:38

Joel E Salas

+1. There are a billion utilities that do this but Speccy is a good one. I also like SIW. – joeqwerty Dec 02 '11 at 03:17

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 02 '11 at 02:35

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A usb bootable linux distro and lshw.

answered Dec 02 '11 at 02:35

Joel K

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 02 '11 at 03:01

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

Caveat - I'm the author.

answered Dec 02 '11 at 03:01

Mark Unwin

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 02 '11 at 06:08

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

answered Dec 02 '11 at 06:08

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 02 '11 at 02:32

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One good Option is 1) Lavasoft Everest

answered Dec 02 '11 at 02:32

dSoultanis

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 02 '11 at 02:37

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This is a great free open source option.

answered Dec 02 '11 at 02:37

ckliborn

John Machacek · Answer 7 · 2011-12-02T03:58:19.100

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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

edited Dec 02 '11 at 03:58

answered Dec 02 '11 at 03:48

John Machacek

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Dec 02 '11 at 08:05

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

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