How to acquire system-information ?

[rapide]

I'm looking for a way to collect information about the hardware (e.g. CPU(s), memory) of the current running system. I've been looking at Sys::Info::Device::CPU but it's neither portable to windows and it got too many dependencies for an application that will be installed on various systems. Basically, I'm looking for:
- CPU type
- Clock-speed
- number of cores
- average last minute (If this can be done with only the current running script it would be much better)
- memory size

Any advice where to look or how to do it?

[shmem]

The only portable way to get that information is via SNMP, i.e a snmp daemon running on the system in question, and Net::SNMP on the querying side.

[tod222]

While it's portable, one can't count on an SNMP daemon being available on a system.

But if one controls the systems in question and can install SNMP if needed, it will be guaranteed to work.

[Corion]

In theory, DBD::WMI (written by me) could be able to give you that information, but this depends on the hardware vendor having written the appropriate drivers.

[rapide]

Thanks, but if it is possible I would like to avoid such constraints as "if the vendor has ..".
If process information were only to be collected from UNIX systems, any other suggestions then ?

[planetscape]

For Windows systems, you will also find useful scripts in the Script Center Repository: Sample Perl Scripts.

[Burak]

> I've been looking at Sys::Info::Device::CPU but it's neither portable to windows

Actually it's very portable :) It's part of my Sys::Info module and currently Windows, Linux & (Free|Open|Net)BSD is supported. However, fot the windows part the cpu load thing is returned as the current CPU load "ratio". The value you can see in the task manager, which is different than the linuc loadavg. So, it's only an emulation on windows (however, if there is a better way, please send a patch :)

[pvaldes]

You can see here an example of the use of Sys::Info