Get System Information of a Remote Machine (Using Java)

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Kirtan picture Kirtan · Jul 16, 2009 · Viewed 10.3k times · Source

As the question's title says, I want to get the system information (like OS name, version, etc.) of a remote system using Java. But before anyone answers this question, I just want to ask whether this is possible, if yes, then how?

One more catch is that this should work for both Unix-based and Windows-based systems. I tried searching the Internet, but drew a blank (almost).

EDIT: The Java app will be a desktop app, and it will have to credentials to be able to log onto the remote system, but there will be no HTTP/RMI that'll be used.

Answer

Joey picture Joey · Jul 16, 2009

For Windows you should be able to access WMI on the remote machine (with some ugly JNI glue), for UNIX systems I don't know of a way (unless you somehow have shell access, then you can probably try logging in via SSH and do a uname -a or similar). It's going to be a lot of work in either case and Java is hardly the right tool for that.

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