Find available expansion slots on a Mac remotely

[NavJitsU4]

I'm working on a 10.6.8 OSX server, and need to know if there is any way I can find what expansion slots (PCI-E, PCI etc) are available, and I need to do it remotely because there is no one available to physically check.

Is there a program or something built into the OS that I can use to check?

Thanks!

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Apple Remote Desktop will do a pretty much full system report. (Or you can use it to remote into the computer and look in System Profiler yourself.)

XServes don't have a lot of expansion slots.

That said, if you get a list of the cards that are installed, and you know how many are int the machine in total, it's pretty simple math to figure out how many slots you have open.

I guess I should also point out that some Apple Servers have LoM capabilities, but I've never used them myself so I don't know if that would help you (except that there's presumably a hardware monitor.)

 

[umrigar]

ARD is great, but Remote Management will need to be turned on on the server before you can connect.

You can issue this command in Terminal, but I'm not sure of you can do that over SSH (which also must be turned on first)

/usr/sbin/system_profiler

ssh serveruser@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where serveruser is the username of one of the users on the server, and xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the server.