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| Keep vital information at hand |
| If you're a typical administrator, you probably manage several servers, which can often leave you |
| wondering about the machines' basic information. For instance, if you're using a KVM switch, you |
| can quickly forget the basic information, such as the machine's name, IP address, installed service |
| packs, and related information. |
| You probably won't remember all the information about all your servers, but there are several |
| methods you can use to remind yourself, such as writing down the information or manually (or |
| scriptically) creating wallpaper with the information you need. But all of these methods have their |
| Perhaps the best, simplest solution for remembering important server information is the BGInfo |
| utility, a free downloadable application. BGInfo automatically creates wallpaper that displays the |
| computer information you specify. To run this application, you only need to identify the |
| information you want to appear on the wallpaper: last boot time, CPU info, default gateway, DNS, |
| host name, IP address, MAC address, domain, etc. |
| http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/bginfo.shtml |
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