sp_helpserver:
Reports information about a particular remote or replication server, or about all servers of both types. Provides the server name, the server's network name, the server's replication status, the server's identification number, collation name, and time-out values for connecting to, or queries against, linked servers.
sp_addlinkedserver:
Creates a linked server, which allows access to distributed, heterogeneous queries against OLE DB data sources. After creating a linked server with sp_addlinkedserver, this server can then execute distributed queries. If the linked server is defined as Microsoft® SQL Server™, remote stored procedures can be executed.
sp_addlinkedsrvlogin
Creates or updates a mapping between logins on the local instance of Microsoft® SQL Server™ and remote logins on the linked server.