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Linux command

sanjit chand_1 — Fri, 26 Jan 2001 18:42:03 GMT

Hi All,

just as HP-UX has the uname -i command to identify the model and serial number of the server, what command can be used on the Linux server to get the same information. Your help will be greatly appreciated and have a wonderful day..

Re: Linux command

Maureen Gunkel — Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:11:55 GMT

sanjit,
Maybe try uname -m , I found it on a search for 'Linux uname'
Mo

Re: Linux command

Gareth Bromley — Sat, 27 Jan 2001 09:12:50 GMT

Using uname will provide with generic information such as:
The machine (hardware) type (-m) e.g. CPU Family, i386, i686 etc.
The machine's network node hostname (-n)
The operating system release (-r) e.g. 2.2.12-20
The operating system name (-s) e.g. Linux
The host processor type (-p). Not very clear
The operating system compilation/version (-v)

A better mechanism, is to look at the following file in /proc
- For CPU information /proc/cpuinfo

Othe useful things in /proc are:
- meminfo (Memory allocation information)
- version (Kernel information and compilation information)
- modules (loaded kernel modules)
- net directory contains lots of network related stats

Unlike Solaris etc., hostids/serial numbers aren't encoded/available on Intel/Linux boxes.

Hope this helps,