Get IBM/Lenovo Computer Information

Environment
  • IBM / Lenovo Computer
Introduction
The easily way to get the computer information both of hardware and software

Procedures
Download Egather: https://www-304.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisplay?brandind=5000008&lndocid=MIGR-4R5VKC

It is a zipped file, just unzip the eg2.exe.

Normally, it just creates a eg2 result file, which should be send to IBM / Lenovo and cannot read simply. However, run it with different parameter. The result file will be changed the format

Many options are hided in default, although run -help. Here is hided option
-Y2
-ht
-wB
-binaryfile
-xmlfile
-textfile
-asciifile
-dgmlfile
-vpd
-stdout
-local
-probe
-probes
-listprobes
-html
-filename
-level
-debug
-step
-nolimit
-silent
-batch
-help
-64OS
-zc
Example to reply the html report to remote computer
call .\eg2.exe -html -batch -filename\\[host]\egather2\%ComputerName%
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