Retrieve System Info using PHP

[nick1]

Greetings,

I would like to retrieve system information from many of the servers I manage. This information would include:

• amount of disk space on each hard drive
• amount of FREE disk space on each hard drive
• processor speed
• amount of RAM
• service tag (Dell servers use this number)
• versions of certain installed applications
• etc...

My question is:
is there a way to gather this information using PHP without having to install any type of reporting agent on each server? SNMP contains a lot of this information, right? Could SNMP and PHP somehow work together? I welcome all of your ideas. Thank you in advance,

Nick

[bretticus]

That's seems pretty ambitious 🆒 if you get it working, you'll have to post your results here.

PHP does have SNMP functions.

Also, I've never used this, but a colleague of mine told me OpenNMS is very cool.