Tried to search but can't find anything. Is there an unix equivalent to right clicking / properties on My Computer to see things like memory, cpu speed etc ?
9 Answers
You could try http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter
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3Many current distributions have this packages (`lshw`) available for installation without needing to build from source. – Oct 24 '09 at 15:53
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Its a nice tool but you might want to mention that it is Linux specific. – Robert Gamble Oct 24 '09 at 16:07
dmidecode
should work on most *nix systems, although it takes some translating. There's also biosdecode
in the same package.
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This is a great utility. It's like opening the box and peeking inside without the down time. – David Oct 25 '09 at 03:31
On Solaris you would use commands such as
prtdiag
prtconf
psrinfo -v
(CPU speed)
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On Linux, such information can be found in /proc/meminfo
and /proc/cpuinfo
. It will be different on different systems.
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There are a few commands you might want to consider running, to see if they're available on your system: lsusb
, lshw
, lspci
.
Be more specific -- what do you mean by Unix? Is this a Solaris box, HPUX machine, FreeBSD, RedHat Linux? That matters.
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There are many useful tools that can help you: dmidecode, lshw, lspci, lsusb, lscpu
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some other commands, depending on distributions lspci, hwclock, biosdecode etc. Also, have a look at man -k hardware, man -k cpu , etc
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The following link has one code which get all the info for a server/system, but it works with RHEL/Fedora/Suse/Ubuntu. I havn't used it on any of the unix boxes so please try it out and let us know. Also what its output looks like on your system.
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