Make a 100+ Server Inventory in 30 minutes

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Make a 100+ Server Inventory in 30 minutes

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Android Grasshopper Points: 17 More actions · Answer 1

Nice process. Would you happen to know how to either automatically populate the batch file with a listing of server names instead of manually (we have close to 200 servers and the list changes frequently) or have the batch file written to draw from another file which contains the list of servers (txt, csv, etc. format)?

Thanks,

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@Ashish Old Hand Points: 383 More actions · Answer 2

There is no information of hard disk size in this command.

Is there any other o/s command which can give you the current hard disk sizes?

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Regards,
Ashish

marvin.meints SSC Rookie Points: 26 More actions · Answer 3

I like the concept, I played with it and had good results in general. One thing to be aware of, is that this approach does not work in all environments. RPC has to be available for this to function.

So, if you are in a "hardened" environment for security where the port are not available, the service is shut off, or any number of things like that, the script will fail generating a simple error message.

So, while this is a great and simple solution, it has it limitations-only worked on a subset of the servers I deal with.

arr.nagaraj SSCertifiable Points: 6518 More actions · Answer 4

@andriod,

Try "sqlcmd -L" on the command prompt and check whether it helps you.

Regards,
Raj

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Kendal Van Dyke SSCertifiable Points: 5972 More actions · Answer 5

Great tip to get a quick inventory!

I wrote a similar blog post about using a free tool called SYDI that uses WMI to gather system information and query\persist it in SQL 2005: http://kendalvandyke.blogspot.com/2008/06/network-documentation-with-sql-2005-and.html. It gathers more information than systeminfo does but it's also slightly more complecated to implement. 🙂

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 6

Thanks - this was an informative and useful article.

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mkadiri SSC Enthusiast Points: 109 More actions · Answer 7

Super tip! Very nice.

I tried a variation (all sql hosts are already in a table): Open a cursor to select servername, then set a command to pull system info by servername, and execute it using xp_cmdshell @cmd,NO_OUTPUT. This can be written as a stored proc and then scheduled to run at will with a SQL Agent job.

SanjayAttray SSChampion Points: 13157 More actions · Answer 8

Excellent info and tool Stanley. Tried now and it took less that 25 minutes to get info for 162 servers.

Good thing is this tool generates the kind info which is very hard to get out of server from one place.

Thanks again.

SQL DBA.

Stuart Grace SSC Rookie Points: 42 More actions · Answer 9

Very good article.

I have wrote a batche file to create one csv file for all servers by using dsquery in conjunction with sysinfo.

However, there is a bug with sysinfo with XP SP3. If running sysinfo with the csv output enabled, from an XP SP3 computer, then copy sysinfo.exe from a server (W2K3 server for example).

example batch file - You will need to change the dsquery line to match the ou and domain that your servers are in. The csv file created is in c:\serverresults.csv:

@echo off

SET MYCOUNT = 0

dsquery computer ou=Servers,dc=MyDomain,dc=com > %TEMP%\Serverlist.txt

IF EXIST c:\serverresults.csv DEL c:\serverresults.csv

FOR /F "tokens=2 delims==," %%i in (%TEMP%\serverlist.txt) do call :GETINFO %%i

GOTO :FINISH

:GETINFO

SET SERVERNAME=%1

SET /A MYCOUNT=%MYCOUNT% + 1

IF "%MYCOUNT%" == "1" (

systeminfo /s %SERVERNAME% /FO CSV >> c:\serverresults.csv

) ELSE (

systeminfo /s %SERVERNAME% /FO CSV /NH >> c:\serverresults.csv

)

GOTO :EOF

:FINISH

jddddd2 SSC Enthusiast Points: 121 More actions · Answer 10

Now that we know how to capture these info, including SQL info. Let's store it in SQL DB instead. What's the best SQL DB Schema if you want to store your SQL Servers and Databases when they're in this environment:

- SQL clustering

- Stand Alone

- VMs

(with multiple SQL instances)

Has anyone come up with a good way to store them in a many-to-many relationship?

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003865 More actions · Answer 11

Phil Factor (6/10/2010)
This would be handy for a DBA if all the servers are in the domain, but rather than make a batch file with a list of all your servers by hand, you could get the list of all your registered SQL servers very easily from SMO, and, whilst you're doing it, collect as much SQL Server information as you want about them to combine with the systeminfo info.

Hi Phil... have you got a link for the method you mention above?

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Phil Factor SSC-Insane Points: 20244 More actions · Answer 12

Hi Phil... have you got a link for the method you mention above?

I use something similar myself. It is simple stuff. If you're interested I'll tidy it up as soon as I get a moment (Error handling? What error handling?) and send it to you. few of the servers I maintain are in the domain so I use a slightly more roundabout route....

Best wishes,
Phil Factor

@Ashish Old Hand Points: 383 More actions · Answer 13

Phil Factor (6/10/2010)
Hi Phil... have you got a link for the method you mention above?
I use something similar myself. It is simple stuff. If you're interested I'll tidy it up as soon as I get a moment (Error handling? What error handling?) and send it to you. few of the servers I maintain are in the domain so I use a slightly more roundabout route....

I am also interested in your approach. It would be nice if you can post it here