System Information

[Greg Golin]

If the system is made by a large manufacturer, it should support DMI.
Get the dmidecode tool and run it, it provides TONS of interesting
information, including serial and model numbers, what RAM slots are
taken up, etc etc.
Regards,
G


On 1/17/06, Ed Wilts <ewilts at ewilts.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 04:48:15PM -0800, Jason Williard wrote:
> > How could I determine the hardware configuration of a system from a
> > command-line in Red Hat Enterprise 3?  The system I need to get the
> > information about is in a remote data center to which I only have SSH access
> > to.
>
> Depending on what information you want, lspci is a pretty good start.
> There's also lshw from http://ezix.sourceforge.net/software/lshw.html
> which is pretty good.  Dag Wieers has an rpm for RHEL 3 at
> http://dag.wieers.com/packages/lshw/.  The only issue I've ever seen
> with lshw is getting the steppings on a multi-cpu hyperthreaded system.
>
>         .../Ed
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