topic Re: Linux System Information in Operating System - Linux

Linux System Information

tkrprakash — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:32:56 GMT

OS is becoming complex day by day , a new colleague at office cannot know setup in a day or 2 , very difficult for us to explain also , is there any way we can find outlike a script

1. system is with raid or not

2. it has software raid confgiured

3. lvms are there

4.root fs mirrored or not

5.how the basic system si cinfigured

6. we have hardware raid given by vendor , why we need softtware raid ?

so many coming to my mind , i want to make the environmetn user friendly to my new colleagues how to make them understand ? any detailed suggestions

Thank you

Re: Linux System Information

Patrick Wallek — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 17:09:54 GMT

A good starting point for gathering system configuration information is CFG2HTML.

Have a look at it here:

http://cfg2html.com/

Re: Linux System Information

tkrprakash — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 05:48:35 GMT

Hi Patrick , Thank you , this looks impressive i will give a try

Re: Linux System Information

VK2COT — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 04:13:23 GMT

Hello,

Patrick gave you very good reference.

By the way, cfg2html project is run by ex-HP staff Ralph Roth,

who is a dear colleague of mine. Ralph now works at SUSE in Germany.

Two months ago, I joined GIThub project cfg2html and this morning

I sent Ralph some diffs for updates to the Linux script...

Some other options:

SOS (the "real" command is sosreport, applies to RHEL servers)

HP's tool getsys

and others

I also, personally, use my Perl script that not only collects configuration information,

but also looks at the status of the server, checks basic performance, security,

and best practices:

http://www.circlingcycle.com.au/Unix-sources/Linux-check-OAT.pl.txt

Several days ago, I added checks for Puppet configuration management as

it is becoming very popular these days (I plan to add similar for Chef and

CFengine)...

You always have many choices on Linux :)

Cheers,