Getting system type from 4.0x

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi,

Does anyone know of a simple way of programitcally getting the machine type of a Tru64 4.0x machine - without using sys_check ?

From looking at the source of sys_check, I know I can get it by passing a rather obtuse string to dbx, however I'm sure there must be an easier way...

Thanks in advance,

Rob

[Khairy]

hi rob,

try:

# uerf -R 300 | more

navigate thru and you will your system model and cpu type.

This is from my server:
----- EVENT INFORMATION -----

EVENT CLASS OPERATIONAL EVENT
OS EVENT TYPE 300. SYSTEM STARTUP
SEQUENCE NUMBER 1.
OPERATING SYSTEM DEC OSF/1
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON Sun Apr 6 12:58:58 2008
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM datasys01
SYSTEM ID x000B000C CPU TYPE: DEC 7000
SYSTYPE x0000000E
MESSAGE Alpha boot: available memory from
_0x55aa000 to 0xfff58000
Digital UNIX V4.0F (Rev. 1229); Tue
_Apr 13 07:02:04 SST 1999
physical memory = 4096.00 megabytes.
available memory = 4009.71 megabytes.
using 15718 buffers containing 122.79
_megabytes of memory
stdin
Firmware revision: 6.6-15
PALcode: Digital UNIX version 1.90-101
Compaq AlphaServer GS140 6/700
Master cpu at slot 0.
Created FRU table binary error log
_packet


As you see, it says compaq alphaserver gs140.

ps: really appreciate if u could assign some points if this answer yr question. Thanks!

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi Khairy,

I know I can get the machine type via uerf, however I was hoping to be able to get it without having to rely on what might be some quite vague use of grep etc.

I also need to be able to get it remotely (probably via rsh) for a large number of machines...

Cheers,

Rob

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi,

A bit more Googling took me to this old post from the Tru64 managers list:

http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Tru64-UNIX-Managers/2003-06/0078.html

Using some of the code there I knocked up a quick C routine, which uses getsysinfo(GSI_PLATFORM_NAME,....) to do what I need.

Regards,

Rob