Scripts to gather unix system hardware and software confiugration

[Eric Unix]

Dear All

Please kindly help me does there are any scripts to gather unix system hardware and software confiugration. Thanks in advance for your great help.

Regards
Eric

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Eric:

Ignite offers the 'print_manifest' which creates a nice basic snapshot.

For Itanium servers, use 'machinfo' for a quick hardware overview.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Eric Unix]

Hello James

Thanks a lot. It is great.

BR
eric

[Eric Unix]

Hello James

It seems too brief.
Have any more detail scripts to show up our box setting ( hosts, network services, dns setup, ...etc ) . Thanks a lot.

BR
eric

[Avinash20]

Please click on the following url:

http://h20331.www2.hp.com/Hpsub/cache/286022-0-0-225-121.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

Check for "HP-UX additional tools"

These tools are good to get all the H/W and S/W information from the server

I basically use nickel from S/W configuration.

PS: Assign points to the posts.

[Eric Unix]

Hello Avinash V Rao

Great !!
Appreciatively .

BR
eric

[Eric Unix]

Hello Avinash V Rao

Does the nickel tool also can used on Itanium box ?

BR
eric

[Avinash20]

Yes, the nickel tools can also be used for Itanium

[Avinash20]

If you just type nickel in ITRC, you will find lot of hits

Please refer to
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1306347

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,

Download Nickel it will take care of all the details of your system.

here is the link
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/catia/Utils/nickel.shar

Suraj

[Eric Unix]

Hello Avinash V Rao

I got errors show up as follows :

adb: info: Option -k is deprecated.
adb: warning: Unrecognized format character - 'U'.
adb: info: Option -k is deprecated.
adb: warning: Unrecognized format character - 'D'.
adb: info: Option -k is deprecated.
adb: warning: Unrecognized format character - 'X'.
adb: info: Option -k is deprecated.
adb: info: Option -k is deprecated.
adb: warning: Unrecognized format character - 'X'.
adb: info: Option -k is deprecated.
/opt/contrib/bin/nickel[2]: There is not enough memory available now.


Do you have any good idea about this issue ?

BR
eric

[Dennis Handly]

>I got errors show up as follows:
adb: info: Option -k is deprecated.
adb: warning: Unrecognized format character - 'U'.

You need to add -o to adb. Also remove -k.

[Avinash20]

Edit the nickel script and remove the "-k" from all the "adb" commands. That will cure your warnings.

[Eric Unix]

Hi Denis

Thanks it work now !
But still got only one error below --->

/opt/contrib/bin/nickel[2]: There is not enough memory available now.

BR
eric

[Avinash20]

run sh -x /usr/contrib/nickel and see on which command nickel fails

Also
# ulimit -m unlimited

And check again if the nickel script runs fine.

[Avinash20]

Also you could well refer to the below thread which will help you

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=260686&admit=109447626+1235634636695+28353475

[Emil Velez]

In addition to what others have suggested

print_manifest being the best

Measureware (Performance Agent) collects system configuration infomration in the TBL and GBL resource classses so you can see the value of some kernel parameters, disks, memory configuration across time if something was changed.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Eric,

There is one other that should be mentioned.

http://www.cfg2html.com/

Cfg2html is a UNIX shell script similar to check_config or get_config, except that it creates a HTML (and plain ASCII) system documentation for HP-UX 10.xx/11.xx, Integrity Virtual Machine, SCO-UNIX, AIX, Sun OS and Linux systems. Plug-ins for SAP, Oracle, Informix, Serviceguard, Fibre Channel/SAN, TIP/ix, Mass Storage like MAS, EVAx000,XP48/128/256/512/1024,1x000/2x000, Network Node Manager and OmniBack/DataProtector etc. are included. The first versions of cfg2html were written for HP-UX. Meanwhile the cfg2html HP-UX stream was ported to major *NIX platforms and small embedded systems.

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Arturo Galbiati]

Hi Eric,
I used a very good script by Bill Hassell to collect the info. I don't know if this fill your reqs or not.
HTH,
Art

[Eric Unix]

Hello All

Appreciate all of your great help.
:-) ...

BR
eric