Remote reboot of windows to knoppix

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Published on 2010-12-22T16:40:35Z Indexed on 2010/12/22 16:55 UTC
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I am attempting to develop an Auditing application.

This audit application will be employed on windows networks.

The Audit will need to discover Hardware and software details of all machines attached to the network (including Printers)

I do not want to have to install this application on each workstation.

The audit app. needs to discover all the ip addresses of all the networked workstations.

I have been prototyping this app for the last couple of months and have decided to try a new tack

Is this possible?

a). You have a windows network, min Windows XP sp3 and upwards

b). Maximum of 100 Networked machines (if that matters)

c). I need to remotely reboot each WINDOWS machine in turn on the entire network and get it to startup using UNIX, say knoppix for example!

d). however the knoppix live cd is only available from one of the networked machines

Questions... Morphology? Longevity? Incept dates?

Cheers

DD

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