Help with developing a network examination system.

[John Toliver]

Hello All,

I am looking for some help. I am new to windows networking from the
administrative point of view. I have been asked by my employer to
take an exhaustive examination of our network which consists of about
10 servers each supporting and average of about 20 users. What I need
to find out is what the hardware specs for the servers are, meaning
what cpu, nic connections there are, ip addresses they are assigned
etc. The reason is that part of the time the machines are managed
over a terminal services connection and at times, if one of our high
speed internet connections die, the servers need to be reassigned
different tasks and which server gets tasked for which jobs depends on
how much memory, hdd, processor, and os resources each has. This all
has to be incorporated into one document. I would like direction, or
perhaps there is some type of app, a single executable preferably
which tells me that type of info so that I can make sure all the info
is included and up to date, and at the same time when our network
configuration changes again, it will not require me to reinvent the
wheel.

Any direction that is provided would be much appreciated,

Thanks, John

 

[Matt Baldwin]

You could use a tool like psinfo.exe from sysinternals to get machine
information. You can run it remotely. That should get you started.
You could script this all out. Another option would be to write a
script that uses WMI to get the information you require.
Hope this helps.

-matt