Are there any other useful hardware commands to get information about your hardware? Is there any information that can't be found with these commands?
cat /proc/cpuinfo
cat /proc/meminfo
dmesg
lspci
sudo dmidecode
cpuid | more
lspci -v | grep VGA
sudo lspci -v -s 00:02.0
sudo lspci -vvv -s 00:02.0
Updating my list a little bit.
cat /proc/cpuinfo
cat /proc/meminfo
dmesg
free
top
lspci
sudo dmidecode
cpuid | more
lspci -v | grep VGA
sudo lspci -v -s 00:02.0
sudo lspci -vvv -s 00:02.0
I have already bookmark this forum due to its interesting features,
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Thanks for this efforts you made.I really appreciate it.
sudo dmidecode | more
lshw -short
lspci -vv
In FreeBSD the vast majority can be found with the following commands:
sysctl
dmesg
uname
Very few people have lshw. lshw probably uses things listed in this thread anyhow.
3 more tools for linux:
lsusb # List USB devices and hubs attached
mii-tool # Tool for configuring older ethernet cards speed/duplex/etc
ethtool # Tool for configufing newer ethernet cards speed/duplex/etc
Another file that's sometimes useful (RedHat, but probably any Linux):
cat /etc/sysconfig/hwconf
I don't even have /etc/sysconfig... redhat is not the universe...
Something that does exist under all (modern) Linux is the special /sys/ folder. It's a virtual folder like /proc/ which holds no real files, but there's all sorts of information buried in there.
# Mac addresses for each network interface
for D in /sys/class/net/*
do
[ "$D" = "/sys/class/net/lo" ] && continue
[ "$D" = "/sys/class/net/sit0" ] && continue
printf "%s\t%s\n" "${D}" "`cat ${D}/address`"
done
# Models of disk drives on the system
for D in /sys/class/block/sd[a-z] /sys/class/block/sr[0-9] /sys/class/block/hd[a-z]
do
[ -e "$D" ] || continue
printf "%s\t%s\n" $D "`cat "$D"/device/model`"
done
for solaris i would add:
# prtdiag
# prtconf
# ipmitool
For HP-UX:
sysinfo.sh
A gigantic Shell script from HP support. Outputs either text format or an html tree. Only uses commands available on your system. Finds out everything worth finding out about your hardware and software installation. Finds hardware error logs you never knew you had and picks up certain security holes.
Working your way through the script is an education.
For modern Windows - a handy summary from the Command Prompt:
systeminfo | more
Another Linux utility, probably not installed by default, but very useful:
sudo powertop
an interactive command which tells you about the performance of your system with respect to electrical power use. It makes fairly intelligent suggestions for reducing power use by suggesting kernel options and tweaks. It also shows a top-like list of processes and kernel drivers, ordered by how many wakeups they cause per second. Programs or drivers which poll for events instead of simply waiting will show as the power-wasters they are.
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Another basic linux one, cat /proc/swaps
What version of redhat do you have? I have fedora and I don't have that file.
$ ls -l /etc/sysconfig/
total 216
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9 Jan 2 09:13 acpid
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 403 Jul 20 2011 atd
-rw-r-----. 1 root root 647 Aug 15 2011 auditd
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 368 Sep 12 2011 authconfig
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jan 8 22:13 cbq
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 486 May 30 2011 cgconfig
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 950 May 30 2011 cgred.conf
-rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 199 Sep 12 2011 clock
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Oct 12 16:46 console
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2651 Feb 8 2011 cpuspeed
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 110 Oct 25 16:39 crond
-rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 35 May 13 2011 desktop
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 31 Jun 28 2011 dund
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 17 Sep 12 2011 firstboot
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 35 Feb 9 2011 gpsd
-rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 25 Sep 12 2011 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 830 Feb 13 09:46 httpd
-rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 47 Sep 12 2011 i18n
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1070 Oct 12 16:46 init
-rw-------. 1 root root 416 May 13 2011 ip6tables
-rw-------. 1 root root 1753 Feb 14 2011 ip6tables-config
-rw-------. 1 root root 495 May 13 2011 ip6tables.old
-rw-------. 1 root root 420 Dec 21 05:54 iptables
-rw-------. 1 root root 1740 Feb 14 2011 iptables-config
-rw-------. 1 root root 493 May 13 2011 iptables.old
-rw-------. 1 root root 411 Dec 21 05:54 iptables.save
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 58 Jul 15 2011 irda
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 648 May 6 2011 irqbalance
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 180 Mar 9 02:49 kernel
-rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 45 Sep 12 2011 keyboard
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 204 Jun 17 2011 man-db
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Oct 12 16:46 modules
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 634 Oct 12 16:46 netconsole
-rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 76 Oct 24 21:00 network
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Oct 12 16:46 networking
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Mar 2 18:47 network-scripts
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1737 Sep 14 2011 nfs
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 45 May 6 2011 ntpd
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 159 May 6 2011 ntpdate
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 71 Jun 28 2011 pand
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1459 Apr 1 2011 prelink
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2776 Jan 12 08:01 raid-check
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 15 Feb 9 2011 rdisc
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 659 Oct 12 16:46 readonly-root
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 200 Jan 27 07:56 rsyslog
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 136 Apr 29 2011 sandbox
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 553 Jul 26 2011 saslauthd
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 17 May 13 2011 selinux -> ../selinux/config
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 20 Oct 24 08:28 sendmail
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 125 Oct 21 09:34 smartmontools
-rw-------. 1 root root 71 Sep 12 2011 system-config-firewall
-rw-------. 1 root root 74 May 13 2011 system-config-firewall.old
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 304 Aug 23 2011 system-config-users
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 644 Jul 27 2011 wpa_supplicant
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 376 Apr 21 2011 xinetd
Might be a RHEL-only thing (5.4). :o