Hardware info from the command line

merry

My g/f needs some help with a linux task, and it's beyond my capability...

She is looking for a way to determine h/w info using command line utilities - number/type/frequency of processors, amount of RAM, motherboard, number/manufacturer of harddisks, type of VGA etc. This is for easy cataloguing the hardware on a number of servers in an institution, the person doing this should be able to gather as much info as possible in a short amount of time, also with "regular" commands (available on various distributions).


If you can help... please do

Thanks in advance

Erroneus

cat /proc/cpuinfo
cat /proc/meminfo

It doesn't show all, but it's a start

And there is proberly more options in the cat /proc/ , like devices, but not sure.

merry

Wow, that was quick, thanks

Looking forward for more input Remeber folks, it's not for ugly me, but for my lovely g/f

UberLord

lspci is a good one, showing all pci connected devices and information. Look into the -l and -v options too.

As to type of harddisks and stuff, you can grep/sed dmesg (use /var/log/dmesg, not dmesg itself)
For example to list all ata connected disks
grep -E "^ata[0-9]+:" /var/log/dmesg
Or use hdparm

merry

Thanks, Uber, I've also found something called hwinfo. Alas, the system turned out to be OpenBSD...

I guess your suggestions will work, especially the grep/dmesg one should be global unix.