Dell or Proliant for Linux

[John Guster]

Is there any command to tell which hardware the Linux is running on? The server is >1000miles away, impossible to get on site support people to check the physical server.
Any suggestions?

[Viveki]

Hi

May be my way of finding the same is not suitable. What about checking the outputs of 'sysreport' (if redhat) or Siga (if suse)?

[u84823]

Check the vendor ID of the MAC address.

[D Challen]

dmidecode will query DMI tables which, on HP hardware, are populated with useful information (I'd hope the same is true on Dell). If running a recent distribution of Linux: "/usr/sbin/dmidecode -t1" should give you the information you want, otherwise "/usr/sbin/dmidecode | grep Product".

Failing that checking kernel messages from early on in the boot process ("less /var/log/dmesg" or "dmesg | less") will often give you useful information. Again, an up to date distro/kernel is better.