Windows Service to obtain server configs

Hi. I have a need to build a Windows service to run on Windows 2003 that will allow the application to communicate with several other servers on the network and obtain their physical specs. All I need to know about these servers is the number of processors, what type, how much memory is intalled, and how much disk is installed. I would then track this in a database and it would be updated as configurations change. These servers will have different OS's including Windows, Linux, and Unix.

This will not need to discover these nodes automatically. I wil have node names and IP addresses for each machine. I will specify these and ask the application to fetch their specs.

I am new to .NET, but is this possible? How would I do this?

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Yes its possible... look into WMI, article.. Your wmi program can reside on client side... For Linux and unix system you will have to write a separate programs...You can have a central windows service program communicating with other (servers) WCF programs to get the required info using WMI... Of course for Linux you will have to have a separate program....

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