If you're using HP/Compaq servers the free Insight Managment utility gives you a lot 
of the information on the boxes and disks you're lookig for. It also has the 
capability to run scripts which could bring you back the other information you'd like. 
You'd be suprised how much information something like Insight Manager can feed back to 
you.

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Creamer, Mark
Sent: Wed 10/22/2003 12:49 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] documenting servers



I have multiple goals for my server docs, although DR is definitely the most important 
to me.

The more servers we get, the more I need a way to quickly tell how much disk, how much 
RAM, what patch
levels, what apps are running, IIS or not, what services running under what 
credentials, blah blah
blah

Is others have said, there are many ways to get at the information, but it would be 
nice to kick off a
script and have it return what I want whenever.

Management seems to think having a binder with server documentation in it as each new 
box gets built
is sufficient. I contend it changes too often and would like something more dynamic. 
Maybe a scheduled
polling event that writes to a database would be best. I've already started, thanks to 
Robbie's
cookbook and Matthew Lavy's WMI Scripting, and would be happy to participate in a more 
global
project...

<mc>

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