Printing a remote machine's CPU information

Sometimes, we need to run a simple command on a remote machine over SSH. For example, we need to query the remote machine's CPU or RAM information. This can be done from a Python script as shown in this recipe.

Getting ready

You need to install the third-party package, Paramiko, as shown in the following command, from the source available from GitHub's repository at https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko:

$ pip install paramiko  

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