You might want to have a look at something like
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SysInfoTM is a system and storage solution for asset inventory and configuration reporting for most major Linux, UNIX, Apple Macintosh, and Microsoft Windows platforms as well as leading NAS and SAN Storage Systems and logical volume software solutions. SysInfo provides extremely detailed system hardware, software, OS configuration, and storage asset management and configuration data in multiple platform agnostic formats.
Data can be retrieved from the local system or remotely over any TCP/IP network from any system with the SysInfo Agent (installed by default as part of the SysInfo product) installed.
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SysInfo is easy to embed in your own program or shell script using our shell or Perl API's. Our parsable output encoding provides a field deliminated format which is easy to parse and convert into your own format or feed into a database.
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