Get System Information of a Remote Machine (Using Java)

Question

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 j

Answer 1

This is a common problem in monitoring a large site comprised of scores or hundreds of machines. There are open source solutions like Zenoss and Nagios. SNMP is a widely supported standard in this space too (and there are ways to connect them into a Java-based "dashboard").