topic Re: Knowing whether IA machine or PA machine? in Operating System - HP-UX

Knowing whether IA machine or PA machine?

Prasad Joshi — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:53:10 GMT

Hi All,

How should i will come to know, like whether I am using IA machine or PA machine.

I am using two machine one is IA machine (hpslia) and other is PA machine (slpam15).

I tried this of IA machie.
bash-2.02# uname -a
HP-UX hpslia01 B.11.23 U ia64 1115046784 unlimited-user license

Here, i am able to see "ia64" ie. it is an IA machine

But, when i do it on PA machine.
bash-2.02# uname -a
HP-UX slpam16 B.11.23 U 9000/800 3547050606 unlimited-user license
I am not getting enough information.

But, is there any way to know whether machine is IA or PA when we first saw those machines?

Thanks in advance.
Prasad

Re: Knowing whether IA machine or PA machine?

Pete Randall — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:56:16 GMT

Prasad,

I would use the model command:

root# model
9000/800/rp7410

The model, in this case, is rp7410 and the "p" stands for PA-RISC. If the "p" was replaced by an "x", it would be Itanium.

Pete

Re: Knowing whether IA machine or PA machine?

RAC_1 — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:57:00 GMT

uname
ia64 - ITANIUM.
if you see 9000/800, then it is PA-RISC

Also, model command.

rp/N/V or any other class thing is PA-RISC, if it is rxXXYY, then it is ITANIUM.

Re: Knowing whether IA machine or PA machine?

Antonio Cardoso_1 — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:57:59 GMT

run sam,
section Performance Monitors,
=> System properties
=> processor tab.

Re: Knowing whether IA machine or PA machine?

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 07:07:04 GMT

# file /stand/vmunix
/stand/vmunix: ELF-64 executable object file - PA-RISC 2.0 (LP64)

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: Knowing whether IA machine or PA machine?

Arunvijai_4 — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:39:58 GMT

Hi Prasad,

You can also do # machinfo or if ignite installed,

# /opt/ignite/bin/print_manifest

-Arun

Re: Knowing whether IA machine or PA machine?

Geoff Wild — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:42:40 GMT

You got it - ia64 = Itanium and 9000 = parisc.

You can also tell by the model rx is Itanium and rp is parisc.

rp4440 is parisc and a rx4440 is Itanium.

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Knowing whether IA machine or PA machine?

Gregory Fruth — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:39:43 GMT

In a shell script you can do this (see
/usr/include/sys/unistd.h):

CPU=`getconf CPU_VERSION`
case $CPU in
528) CPU="hppa11";; # CPU_PA_RISC1_1
532) CPU="hppa20";; # CPU_PA_RISC2_0
768) CPU="ia64";; # CPU_IA64_ARCHREV_0
*) CPU="unknown";;
esac

Re: Knowing whether IA machine or PA machine?

Kent Ostby — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:41:23 GMT

file vmunix will show either:

/stand/vmunix: ELF-64 executable object file - PA-RISC 2.0 (LP64)

/stand/vmunix: ELF-64 executable object file - IA6

Re: Knowing whether IA machine or PA machine?

Rick Garland — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:16:13 GMT

Itanium systems are 'rx' modelsas opposed to 'rp'

Re: Knowing whether IA machine or PA machine?

Tim D Fulford — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:11:16 GMT

uname -a ...
IA - Itanium
9000 - PARISC

model ...
rxABCD - rack optimized Itanium A= std rack unit height
rpABCD - rack optimised PARISC A=std rack unit height

Regards

Tim

Re: Knowing whether IA machine or PA machine?

Narayanaswami — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:36:39 GMT

9000/800 means HP 9000 which is the HP Server line on PA.
ia64 obviously denotes an IA machine,and the
Server line from HP is called Integrity.
Uname ,and model are sufficient ways to find this out.
Could you clarify what you mean by "when we first saw those machines?"
Eg.if you see an rx2600 then,it will be labelled as HP Integrity rx2600...If you see an
rp5400 ,it will be labelled as HP 9000 rp5400

..All rp-s and K-Class,N-Class etc are PA machines..
Integrity is usually labelled as IA with the exception of Superdomes.
For superdomes,I think it is specified whether it is a HP9000 or Integrity Superdome.

Hope this helps

Re: Knowing whether IA machine or PA machine?

Prasad Joshi — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:04:43 GMT

Hi Arun,

I am not able to use # machinfo on PA machine

bash-2.02# uname -a
HP-UX slpam16 B.11.23 U 9000/800 3547050606 unlimited-user license

bash-2.02# machinfo
bash: machinfo: command not found

But, able to use it on IA machine

bash-2.02# uname -a
HP-UX hpslia02 B.11.23 U ia64 1090910286 unlimited-user license

As you can see i am using same VERSION of OS i.e. B.11.23

Can you help?

Thanks & regards.

Re: Knowing whether IA machine or PA machine?

Prasad Joshi — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:21:59 GMT

Hi Narayanaswami,

When we first saw machine
means "When are not knowing any harware details of that machine" Then how to find model.

Thanks for your replay.

Re: Knowing whether IA machine or PA machine?

Muthukumar_5 — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:22:23 GMT

Prasad,

You can get to know the machine model as,

# uname -m

If it is IA - then machine is IA
else PA

# model

will also give that.

In 11.23 PA machine,

# find / -name "machinfo"

Is there any file available. PA version may not have that.

--
Muthu

Re: Knowing whether IA machine or PA machine?

Arunvijai_4 — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:22:41 GMT

Hi Prasad,

As others specified, if it is 9000/800 in "uname -a", it should be a PA box.

Also, # file /stand/vmunix is the best way of all. You can also try # getconf CPU_CHIP_TYPE

-Arun

P.S Remember to assign points.

Re: Knowing whether IA machine or PA machine?

Prasad Joshi — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:39:34 GMT

Hi All,

I got the required answers.

Actually, I wanted to know, in what all ways i can get model information.

This required me to postpone giving points.
Sorry for that.

I think all will be statisfied with points i gave.

Thanks a lot for your help.
Looking forward for your help.