Paper Info
Title
Tracking Hardware Configurations in a Heterogeneous Network with syslogd
Abstract
Keeping track of the RAM, disk drives, and various SCSI, network, and display adaptors currently installed in dozens (or even hundreds) of workstations can be a nearly impossible task, particularly in environments where hardware is frequently "borrowed" from one workstation and moved to another, or where machines frequently come and go. This paper describes a novel method of using syslog(3) to allow the workstations themselves to log their current hardware configuration with a central host every time they boot. The application reuses existing tools wherever possible, and thus provides a good degree of platform independence. The programs work with nearly any UNIX system, and should be extendable to other non-UNIX (but TCP/IP enabled) systems with only modest effort.
Year
Venue
Keywords
1995
LISA
disk drive,central host,novel method,current hardware configuration,platform independence,good degree,unix system,tracking hardware configurations,heterogeneous network,various scsi,impossible task,modest effort
Field
DocType
Citations 
SCSI,Computer science,Unix,Workstation,Heterogeneous network,Computer hardware,syslog,Embedded system
Conference
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.50
2
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rex Walters121.50