Thursday, March 20, 2008

Hardware and System information tools in Linux

Hardware Lister (lshw) - http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter

lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc.

http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter

Usage:

lshw [format] [options... ] where format can be

-X to launch the GUI (if available)
-html to activate HTML mode
-xml to activate XML mode
-short to print hardware paths
-businfo to print bus information

dmidecode:

Dmidecode reports information about your system's hardware as described in your system BIOS. This command gives you vendor name, model name, serial number, BIOS version, asset tag as well as a lot of other details. This will include usage status for the CPU sockets, expansion slots (e.g. AGP, PCI, ISA) and memory module slots, and the list of I/O ports (e.g. serial, parallel, USB). A pretty useful command for sysadmins to prepare their system inventory.

cfg2html:

Cfg2html generates an HTML or plain ASCII report of your Linux/AIX/HP-UX system. It includes configuration information about kernel, filesystems, security, etc, and might be usefull for system documentation.

AIX version of cfg2html can be found here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cfg2html/

Linux and HP-UX version of cfg2html can be found here:

http://www.cfg2html.com/

sosreport:(son of sysreport)

https://fedorahosted.org/sos/

The command sosreport is a tool that collects information about a system, such as what kernel is running, what drivers are loaded, and various configuration files for common services. It also does some simple diagnostics against known problematic patterns.

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