in reply to How to acquire system-information ?

The only portable way to get that information is via SNMP, i.e a snmp daemon running on the system in question, and Net::SNMP on the querying side.

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Re^2: How to acquire system-information ?
by tod222 (Pilgrim) on Sep 10, 2008 at 18:35 UTC
    While it's portable, one can't count on an SNMP daemon being available on a system.

    But if one controls the systems in question and can install SNMP if needed, it will be guaranteed to work.

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