topic Re: System Configuration Collection Command? in Operating System - Linux

System Configuration Collection Command?

zhwpeng — Sun, 29 May 2005 21:25:21 GMT

Hi, guys,

is there a command or tool that can be used to collect system configuration info? i.e. installed software, file system...

Re: System Configuration Collection Command?

Stuart Browne — Sun, 29 May 2005 21:30:48 GMT

There is no single command, but there are a collection of commands.

If using a RH or SuSE distribution, the following is good for you:

df -vh
rpm -qa
lspci
cat /proc/meminfo
cat /proc/scsi/scsi

This gives disk space, installed software, installed PCI hardware, memory information, and SCSI Bus information.

You might also want to include the contents of '/etc/sysconfig/hwconf' (from a RH system).

Is there any specific information you need from such an audit?

Re: System Configuration Collection Command?

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 29 May 2005 22:11:14 GMT

You either write it yourself, or use the GUI that comes with Gnome. There is a pretty substantial abound of information that can be gathered together in that way.

I had to do the same thing for HP-UX, so its not just Linux.

I would say however its been done.

Why not offer a 10 point reward to one who can attach a script that does what you wish.

SEP

Re: System Configuration Collection Command?

Gopi Sekar — Mon, 30 May 2005 03:34:11 GMT

i am not sure whether there is single program which can dump the system information in to a text file. you can write your own script to collect the required information.

df, /etc/sysconfig/hwconf and files in /proc directory might be of useful to you.

if you are looking for GUI based tool, there is on kinfocenter (for KDE) which can give all the details that you are looking for. but there is no option to export these information to a text file

Regards,
Gopi

Re: System Configuration Collection Command?

Huc_1 — Mon, 30 May 2005 09:39:59 GMT

If you are running a RedHat distribution chance are you have sysreport install

do a
#rpm -qla sysreport

This will extract lots of information from your system and ask you if you want to mail this to reahat in case they need this to help you solve a problem (or check your config)

On one of my system's I have this version (I used Yum tolls to keep up to date)

# yum info sysreport
Setting up Repos
extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
extras : ################################################## 937/937
base : ################################################## 2622/2622
updates-re: ################################################## 885/885
Installed Packages
Name : sysreport
Arch : noarch
Version: 1.3.13
Release: 1
Size : 20 k
Repo : installed
Summary: Gathers system hardware and configuration information.

Description:
Sysreport is a utility that gathers information about a system's
hardware and configuration. The information can then be used for
diagnostic purposes and debugging. Sysreport is commonly used to help
support technicians and developers by providing a "snapshot" of a
system's current layout.

Hope this helps everybody that may read this ;)

Jean-Pierre Huc

Re: System Configuration Collection Command?

Huc_1 — Mon, 30 May 2005 09:44:32 GMT

I should also have added that I use this as part of contigency in case of disaster

Zero point for this add on to previous reply.

Thanks,

Jean-Pierre Huc

Re: System Configuration Collection Command?

Ross Minkov — Tue, 31 May 2005 08:46:54 GMT

Trying not to repeat anything from previous posts, check out also these tools:

cfg2html
lshw
dmidecode

Regards,
Ross