>   The purpose of my script is to auto discover every system 
> on a network
>   Stack beginning using tcp/ip protocols and then later using 
> snmp also.
> 
>   The data I will be collecting is for the sole purpose of gather
> information about a site and a site configuration. Similar to 
> tools such as
> Veritas SPC (SAN Point Control) does.
> 
>   Type of data I'm collection is system configuration within 
> a server, a
> router, a San switch and then a storage array.
> 
> Example: Server:
>               CPU, speed and number of them
>               Memory, total
>               Storage Devices (Internal and external sizes)
>               NIC, Number of them, speed
>               HBA's, number of them, speed
>               Server Functionality (DNS, DHCP, NIS, NIS+, WINS, LDAP,
> A/D...etc.)

I'd look at the Net::SNMP module. You can enable SNMP on just about any
OS or network appliance.

http://search.cpan.org/~dtown/Net-SNMP-4.1.2/

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