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Is there an easy way (non-GUI) to get meaningful system info into a text file?

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Lifer
I'm thinking about writing a little program that takes useful system info (CPU speed, RAM, HD info, possibly some software info) and puts it into a text file, then contacts a website and uploads that info. Doing this for a project at work...anyway, does anyone know of a relatively easy way to do this? I'm not a C/C++ programmer or anything like that; I'm mainly going to be working the web interface to insert it into a MySQL db, and interact with the data. I'm just wondering how I'd go about getting this info (all on W2k or XP systems) on a per-system basis. Any ideas? It needs to be something commandline based, not GUI-based, so the domain login script could call it.

Rob
 
This might not be exactly what you're looking for, but you can run the systeminfo command from a prompt in XP and pipe the output to a file. From a command prompt it would be "systeminfo > info.txt". IIRC 2k doesn't have the systeminfo command though.
 
Originally posted by: kuffedNstuffed
Try SiSoftware Sandra 2003 software. It will have what you want to do...
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Yeah, I'm wondering more along the lines of how you get that without having to run Sandra on every machine, though. We want to combine a PHP form + MySQL DB + Domain Login script to get info on all our systems. 😛

Rob
 
This probally wont help... but
Direct X has the option to save all of its information into a .txt file. Just open up dxdiag.exe and click save all info.
 
look up the MSDN for stuff about perfmon. Its got more than enough information about anything you want to know. Im pretty sure you can just query it just like SQL.
 
Originally posted by: Shalmanese
look up the MSDN for stuff about perfmon. Its got more than enough information about anything you want to know. Im pretty sure you can just query it just like SQL.
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I've looked around it...still can't figure out how I'd run perfmon (as a script or something like that) to report stuff to a text file. Have any ideas?

Rob
 
Originally posted by: illusion88
This probally wont help... but
Direct X has the option to save all of its information into a .txt file. Just open up dxdiag.exe and click save all info.
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Yeah I usually use dxdiag when I need to do it.. works pretty effectively.
 
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
Originally posted by: illusion88
This probally wont help... but
Direct X has the option to save all of its information into a .txt file. Just open up dxdiag.exe and click save all info.
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Yeah I usually use dxdiag when I need to do it.. works pretty effectively.
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It gives the sort of info I need, but is there any way to bypass the GUI in dxdiag and just write the output to a text file? I can't see any way to do that...

Rob
 
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