Okay, there are plenty of modules for dealing with Win32 systems. Looking at win32 and win32api will show you just how many there are!

For your situation, I think that I'd use Win32::TieRegistry to look up that information in the registry of the various networked PCs.

You might want to look through HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\enum.

Updated: Oops! What was I thinking? The registry will hold the information on the specific hardware components. Make and Model are in a file called oeminfo.ini. On Win9x systems it is in c:\windows\system. On Win2k, it is in c:\winnt\system32. Config::IniFiles should come to the rescue with reading the info.

In reply to Re: Remote PC info by Mr. Muskrat
in thread Remote PC info by joeheb

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