Re: FN-FORUM: Dumb question

date posted 14th January 2005 15:45

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From: "Dom Latter" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Dumb question


On Friday 14 Jan 2005 12:25 am, Lists wrote:
> There are a number of racks containing servers which could have any OS
from
> OpenVMS to Win2k3 on them. I have to find out the OS of each one but do
not
> have any user or admin access. I can (by tracing KVM cables) turn on a
> screen and see each one.
>
> I told you it was a stupid question.

//No such thing. [1] But what happened? Did the dog eat the system
administrator's documentation? I expect the Windows boxes will tell
you what they are (to some extent) but for various Unices you will
I expect find yourself with a very very uninformative logon screen.//

That's what I remember - sometimes the banner is informative.
The client does not think it is necessary - there *should* be someone to ask
at each location (bwhahahahahaha!)

//How many servers?//

approx 3860 devices (but some will be routers and switches)

//Can you identify the IP address of each box? If they are webservers
then the header might tell you something; or there are tools that you
can point at an IP address that will attempt to ID the OS by doing
Clever Stuff [tm].//


//What use is knowing the OS if you don't have admin rights anyway?//

No network or local access - it's an office move audit - they have the IP
and
MAC info but need to tie this to physical location etc etc (I still don't
know why they need the OS, but still)

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