21 Apr
2007
21 Apr
'07
1:10 a.m.
Sun has (on the Ultras) prtdiag from Solaris, can't recall what IBM has
under AIX but it isn't as instructive. Linux has stuff in /proc that
lists everything.
BTW the Onyx2/Origin2(something) sleds are the same as the Octane sleds.
21 Apr
21 Apr
2:54 a.m.
Scott Quinn wrote:
Sun has (on the Ultras) prtdiag from Solaris,
can't recall what IBM has
under AIX but it isn't as instructive. Linux has stuff in /proc that
lists everything.
BTW the Onyx2/Origin2(something) sleds are the same as the Octane sleds.
IBM's works fine. lscfg and lsdev.
Peace... Sridhar
4:15 a.m.
On Apr 20, 2007, at 10:10 PM, Scott Quinn wrote:
Sun has (on the Ultras) prtdiag from Solaris,
can't recall what IBM
has under AIX but it isn't as instructive. Linux has stuff in /proc
that lists everything.
You might think AIX is "less instructive" if you only know lsdev. Try
'lscfg -vp' and then tell me what you think. (@;
There's also lsattr and lsconf. It just depends on what you want to
know.
I find Linux's interface (text files in /proc and /sys) to be horrific.
hinv on SGI reports more or less detail depending on your platform.
For example, it returns a whole lot less data on an Indy than it does
on your Onyx2, even taking into consideration that there is a whole
lot less hardware in an Indy.
HP-UX is the worst, though. At least there's graphinfo.
ok
bear
6:32 a.m.
On 21/04/2007 09:15, r.stricklin wrote:
On Apr 20, 2007, at 10:10 PM, Scott Quinn wrote:
There's one tool that is fairly comprehensive and available for all the
above: sysinfo. One of its merits is that it saves having to learn a
bunch of different commands on different systems. It used to be free,
and you could download the sourcecode and compile it yourself. For
current versions, alas, there's a license fee, unless you are an
educational establishment (free license if your domain name ends in
.edu, .ac.uk, and several others), though some customers can still get
the source code. I have the source for an old version (3.4 final),
which says:
"Sysinfo is a program which shows various pieces of information about
the hardware and operating system software configuration of the host
it's run on. The original version was written to simply determine the
model name of a system for use in /etc/motd. It also supported a few
other pieces of information that were simple to obtain, but the method
used to obtain the information on various different OS's varied. The
current version shows many different "general" bits of system
information as well as fairly detailed information about system
hardware devices (disk drives, frame buffers, tape drives, etc.),
kernel variables, and system configuration information. A lot of the
information Sysinfo displays is difficult, if not impossible, to
determine by normal OS commands and/or files after boot time on many
OS's.
[...]
Supported platforms
Sun SPARC / (various versions of SunOS)
x86 / SunOS
IBM RS6000 / AIX
SGI IRIX
HP9000 / HP-UX
Convex SPP / SPP-UX"
It's from a company called MagniComp Systems if you want to look it up
on the Internet. Or contact me off-list if you want a copy of the tar
file for version 3.4-final -- the copyright file says it's freely
distributable.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Sun has (on the Ultras) prtdiag from Solaris,
can't recall what IBM
has under AIX but it isn't as instructive. Linux has stuff in /proc
that lists everything.
You might think AIX is "less instructive" if you only know lsdev. Try
'lscfg -vp' and then tell me what you think. (@;
There's also lsattr and lsconf. It just depends on what you want to know.
I find Linux's interface (text files in /proc and /sys) to be horrific.
hinv on SGI reports more or less detail depending on your platform. For
example, it returns a whole lot less data on an Indy than it does on
your Onyx2, even taking into consideration that there is a whole lot
less hardware in an Indy.
HP-UX is the worst, though. At least there's graphinfo. 
9:44 a.m.
Sun has (on
the Ultras) prtdiag from Solaris, can't recall what IBM
has under AIX but it isn't as instructive. Linux has stuff in /proc
that lists everything.
You might think AIX is "less instructive" if you only know lsdev. Try
'lscfg -vp' and then tell me what you think. (@; 
5:16 p.m.
Saturday, April 21, 2007, 3:44:53 PM, you wrote:
My AIX 4.1 machines don't like -p -- I don't
think that was added until 4.3.
I don't have an AIX machine around for testing, but now that you
people mention it, I can remember various install and configuration
attempts on RS6000/AIX that proved for a great interaction between
hardware and software.
--
Best regards,
Gerhard mailto:mail at g-lenerz.de
Old SGI Stuff http://sgistuff.g-lenerz.de/
12:32 p.m.
On Saturday 21 April 2007 04:15, r.stricklin wrote:
On Apr 20, 2007, at 10:10 PM, Scott Quinn wrote:
Try "hwinfo" under Linux.
Pat
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Sun has (on the Ultras) prtdiag from Solaris,
can't recall what IBM
has under AIX but it isn't as instructive. Linux has stuff in /proc
that lists everything.
You might think AIX is "less instructive" if you only know lsdev. Try
'lscfg -vp' and then tell me what you think. (@;
There's also lsattr and lsconf. It just depends on what you want to
know.
I find Linux's interface (text files in /proc and /sys) to be
horrific. 
2:10 p.m.
On Saturday 21 April 2007 13:37, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 4/21/07, Patrick Finnegan <pat at
computer-refuge.org> wrote:
It's an extra package, but almost everything in the linux world is
an "extra package". Debian distributes it through apt...
Try "hwinfo" under Linux.
Is that an add-on? I don't seem to see it on my RedHat boxes. From what I can find, it's originally from SuSE. I
couldn't easily find
any RPMs for RedHat, but you could always try installing
from source, or
installing from SuSE RPMs. :)
Pat
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9:30 p.m.
On Saturday 21 April 2007 10:37, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 4/21/07, Patrick Finnegan <pat at
computer-refuge.org> wrote:
It's not on SuSE either...
Lyle
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
Try "hwinfo" under Linux.
Is that an add-on? I don't seem to see it on my RedHat boxes.
11:34 p.m.
On Saturday 21 April 2007 21:30, Lyle Bickley wrote:
On Saturday 21 April 2007 10:37, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Sure it is, if you install the right RPM when you install the system.
hwinfo *came from* SuSE.
On 4/21/07, Patrick Finnegan <pat at
computer-refuge.org> wrote:
It's not on SuSE either... Try "hwinfo" under Linux.
Is that an add-on? I don't seem to see it on my RedHat boxes. From apt-cache show hwinfo on the Debian box I'm on
right now:
Description: Hardware identification system
hwinfo is the hardware detection tool used in SuSE Linux.
.
In Debian-Edu (Skolelinux) hwinfo has shown better results than discover when
detecting mouse, keyboard and monitor.
.
hwinfo collects information about the hardware installed on a system. Among
others, libhd contains information about cdrom, zip, floppy, disks and
partitions, network card, graphics card, monitor, camera, mouse, sound, pppoe,
isdn, modem, printer, scanner, bios, cpu, usb, memory and smp.
Pat
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