APIs to query hardware

[Sonison James]

Hello,

I would like to know if there is an API (something similar to kstat on Solaris) that will give let me query hardware devives like CPU, disk drives, CD-ROMs, memory, network adapters for information like serial number, manufacturer, speed, size etc. A command which also returns this type of info would be great, but GUI based tools would not be helpful.

Thanks and regards
SJ

[twang · Accepted solution]

Actually there are many tool which can be used to displayed such info, some are listed, i hope they are helpful:
- /opt/ignite/bin/print_manifest (if ignite-ux was installed)
- sysinfo (it is a script can be used to collect hpux system info)
- cfg2html (it is a script)
- nickel (it is also a script)

[Steven E. Protter]

you don't need an api.

ioscan will do it for you.

It can query any and all hardware on the box, determining its status.

For status try these tools.

From a prompt: mstm

From X-Windows: xstm Its a gui and actually has information and testing programs. I have used it to find dead hardware that didn't show up on the last tool I am giving you.

dmesg

I also know that oracle enterprise manager has limited gui hardware testing abilitities. the problem with that is it can't have root priviledgeds and you really need them to do this kind of work.

Good Luck. Hope this is a solution for you.

SEP

[Zeev Schultz]

Go for cstm which is the most "command line"
tool to get hardware info.Just type cstm,go to the prompt and type help for the rest.Can also search for it on docs.hp.com.If you looking something like Solaris prtdiag try :
echo "selall;info;wait;il" | cstm (I'm not 100% sure about the syntax).
BTW,Solaris kstat is a perl module,you don't mean /usr/sbin/kstat which is for kernel statistics I beleive?
Here is a nice link Solaris-to-HPUX

http://www.jpn.hp.com/products/workstations/os/datasheets/pdfs/hpux_solaris_reference_guide.pdf

Zeev