Server storage report application.

[Keen_Interest]

Hey guys, I'm looking to use an application to sign in to a range of servers (automatically on the activation of the application) using their IPs and some user credentials, retrieve information on how much free space is on each drive, and post the information from all the different servers in a spreadsheet.

 

The logging in is done by remote desktop, and I'd like the spreadsheet to be on the machine that is running the remote desktop, not the server. 

 

I was wondering if such an application exists, if not, how complicated would it be to make? My programming skills are currently next to none, I know VERY basic C++, and nothing about GUI.

 

Hope you can help guide me with this.

 

Cheers!

 

PS

 

The application would need to be open source, so one of the programmers can look through the code and make sure there's nothing dodgy in it, as the servers may contain some confidential information. 

[alpenwasser]

What operating system(s) are the servers running?

If it's Windows, you'll need to ask somebody else, but if it's

Linux, BSD or something generally Unix-like, I'd recommend SSH.

I think it should also work if the PC from which the remoting

is done is running Windows.

Basically, you'd log into the server via SSH and then query it

for free disk space. If set up right, you could even automate

this process and catch the results in a CSV file, for example.

For this to work you'd need an SSH server up and running on the

servers, and an SSH client on the remote PC.

I don't think it should be necessary to make your own program

for this, remotely logging into servers is nothing uncommon,

so good solutions for this already exist. Additionally, making

your own program and making it secure will not be a trivial

task.