| 1 | [MagniComp Systems] |
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| 2 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 3 | |
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| 4 | SysInfo Home Page |
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| 5 | GENERAL http://www.magnicomp.com/sysinfo/ |
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| 6 | INFORMATION: |
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| 7 | Home Description |
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| 8 | Downloads |
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| 9 | Contact Us SysInfo displays various types of information about a host's |
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| 10 | Contributions hardware and operating system (OS) software. It is intended |
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| 11 | Licensing to provide information in both human readable and program |
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| 12 | parsable formats. System Administrators can use SysInfo to |
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| 13 | OUR SOFTWARE: obtain hardware asset information and OS configuration |
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| 14 | information. Programs which use SysInfo can obtain this |
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| 15 | SYSINFO information in a platform independent manner. |
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| 16 | Show system |
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| 17 | information and The amount of information displayed varies by operating |
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| 18 | configuration. system. Here are some of the types of information that may be |
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| 19 | provided (varies by platform): |
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| 20 | RDIST |
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| 21 | Remote software * Host name |
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| 22 | distribution * Host name aliases |
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| 23 | system. * Host network addresses |
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| 24 | * Host ID |
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| 25 | QTERM * System serial number |
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| 26 | Automaticly * Manufacturer of the system's hardware |
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| 27 | query terminal * System model name |
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| 28 | for terminal * CPU type |
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| 29 | type. * Application architecture |
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| 30 | * Kernel architecture |
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| 31 | * Amount of main memory |
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| 32 | * Operating system name |
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| 33 | * Operating system version |
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| 34 | * Kernel version |
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| 35 | * A variety of information about devices |
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| 36 | * A variety of different kernel parameters |
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| 37 | * A variety of different system configuration parameters |
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| 38 | |
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| 39 | Most of the OS specific information was determined by |
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| 40 | groveling /usr/include/{sys,machine,*dev}/*.h files, section |
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| 41 | 4 man pages, and reverse engineering the output from various |
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| 42 | commands like devinfo (SunOS) and using the trace(2) |
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| 43 | facility. Some of the network (netif) code was inspired by |
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| 44 | the sources to the 4.3BSD netstat and ifconfig commands. |
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| 45 | |
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| 46 | Example Output |
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| 47 | |
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| 48 | The following are examples of output from SysInfo from |
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| 49 | various (but not all) platforms: |
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| 50 | |
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| 51 | Man. Model OS SysInfo Output |
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| 52 | |
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| 53 | Sun Ultra 30 Solaris 2.6 Default human readable |
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| 54 | output |
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| 55 | |
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| 56 | Sun Ultra 30 Solaris 2.6 Full human readable output |
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| 57 | |
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| 58 | Sun Ultra 30 Solaris 2.6 Full program readable |
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| 59 | output |
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| 60 | |
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| 61 | IBM RS6000 975 AIX 4.2 Default human readable |
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| 62 | output |
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| 63 | |
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| 64 | IBM RS6000 975 AIX 4.2 Full human readable output |
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| 65 | |
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| 66 | SGI Origin 2000 IRIX 6.4 Full human readable output |
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| 67 | |
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| 68 | Supported Platforms |
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| 69 | |
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| 70 | The following table indicates what platforms are supported |
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| 71 | for the current release of SysInfo. This platform list is |
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| 72 | subject to change with each dot dot release of SysInfo. |
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| 73 | |
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| 74 | SysInfo Class of |
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| 75 | Information |
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| 76 | |
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| 77 | Man. OS Hard- Gen- Ker- Sys- Dev- Notes |
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| 78 | ware eral nel conf ice |
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| 79 | |
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| 80 | Solaris |
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| 81 | May no |
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| 82 | Sun 1.x / SPARC Y Y Y Y longer |
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| 83 | SunOS |
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| 84 | 4.1.4 work. |
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| 85 | |
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| 86 | Solaris SunOS |
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| 87 | 5.5.1 and |
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| 88 | Sun 2.x / SPARC Y Y Y Y 5.6 |
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| 89 | SunOS |
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| 90 | 5.x verified |
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| 91 | working. |
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| 92 | |
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| 93 | Solaris SunOS |
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| 94 | 5.5.1 |
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| 95 | Sun 2.x / x86 Y Y Y Y tested on |
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| 96 | SunOS |
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| 97 | 5.x limited |
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| 98 | hardware. |
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| 99 | |
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| 100 | IBM AIX 3.x, RS6000 Y N Y Y |
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| 101 | 4.x |
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| 102 | |
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| 103 | IRIX IRIX 5.x |
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| 104 | SGI 5.3, MIPS Y N Y Y may no |
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| 105 | 6.[0-4] longer |
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| 106 | work |
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| 107 | |
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| 108 | HP HP-UX hp9000 Y Y N P |
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| 109 | 9.x 10.x |
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| 110 | |
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| 111 | KEY: |
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| 112 | Y - Yes, it's supported |
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| 113 | N - No, it's not supported |
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| 114 | P - Planned |
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| 115 | |
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| 116 | Releases |
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| 117 | |
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| 118 | Information about releases is available from |
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| 119 | http://www.magnicomp.com/sysinfo/release.htm. |
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| 120 | |
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| 121 | Status |
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| 122 | |
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| 123 | SysInfo is under ongoing development. Releases occur 2-4 |
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| 124 | times per year. |
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| 125 | |
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| 126 | Download |
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| 127 | |
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| 128 | Click To Download |
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| 129 | |
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| 130 | Installation |
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| 131 | |
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| 132 | 1. Follow the instructions to Download and unpack a |
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| 133 | distribution. You can either download complete source |
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| 134 | and build (compile) from scratch, or you can choose to |
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| 135 | download a precompiled version. Use the precompiled |
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| 136 | distributions if there is a distribution available for |
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| 137 | your platform and the default path to sysinfo |
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| 138 | configuration files (/var/local/conf/sysinfo) is |
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| 139 | acceptable. You must download the source and compile |
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| 140 | otherwise. Please note that sysinfo should only be run |
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| 141 | on the same OS version as it was compiled on. i.e. If |
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| 142 | compiled on SunOS 5.5, do not run the same binary on |
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| 143 | 5.6. |
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| 144 | 2. If compiling from source: |
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| 145 | 1. Read the comments in `Makefile' and make any |
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| 146 | necessary changes. You probably will want to change |
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| 147 | the PREFIX and/or CONFDIR variables. |
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| 148 | 2. Run `make'. Please note the following: |
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| 149 | + You will almost always need to compile SYSINFO |
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| 150 | on _EACH_ version of your operating system |
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| 151 | (OS). |
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| 152 | + Under SunOS 4.x, you must compile SYSINFO for |
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| 153 | each kernel architecture (karch) and each OS |
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| 154 | version. i.e. "sun4c SunOS 4.1.4", "sun4m |
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| 155 | SunOS 4.1.4", etc. This is not necessary under |
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| 156 | SunOS 5.x. |
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| 157 | 3. Continue with the following instructions for both source |
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| 158 | compiles and binary distribution downloads... |
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| 159 | 4. Run `make test' to run sysinfo right now as a test. |
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| 160 | 5. To install the sysinfo program, you can either use `make |
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| 161 | installmeta' (read the file `metasysinfo' for details) |
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| 162 | or you can run `make install'. |
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| 163 | 6. Run `make install.man' to install the man page. |
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| 164 | |
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| 165 | Reporting Problems |
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| 166 | |
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| 167 | Please Contact Us to send bug fixes, suggestions, and |
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| 168 | comments. When reporting bugs, please include output from |
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| 169 | "sysinfo -level all -debug +unknown" whenever possible. |
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| 170 | |
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| 171 | Platform Notes |
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| 172 | |
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| 173 | The following are notes regard specific platforms: |
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| 174 | |
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| 175 | * SunOS 4.x |
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| 176 | |
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| 177 | SYSINFO should be compiled for each kernel architecture |
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| 178 | machine you wish to run it on. This is only needed for |
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| 179 | SunOS 4.x. It is _NOT_ required for Solaris 2.x/SunOS |
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| 180 | 5.x. (SYSINFO is normally installed into /usr/kvm and |
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| 181 | symlinked into something like /usr/local/bin.) This is |
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| 182 | necessary if you wish to be able to get the PROM version |
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| 183 | information. The SunOS 4.x interface to the PROM |
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| 184 | information does not permit having one binary that can |
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| 185 | determine the PROM information on all the different |
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| 186 | kernel architectures. This interface problem is fixed in |
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| 187 | Solaris 2.x/SunOS 5.x. |
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| 188 | |
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| 189 | Your kernel must have NIT (Network Interface Tap) |
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| 190 | compiled into it in order to determine the Ethernet MAC |
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| 191 | address under SunOS 4.x. |
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| 192 | |
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| 193 | * Solaris 2.4/SunOS 5.4 |
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| 194 | |
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| 195 | Due to a change in SunOS 5.4, "ROM Version" information |
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| 196 | is not shown unless Sun patch 102555-01 or later is |
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| 197 | installed. This problem does not exist in SunOS 5.5 |
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| 198 | because Sun added a new interface to get this |
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| 199 | information. |
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| 200 | |
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| 201 | * Solaris 2.x/SunOS 5.x |
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| 202 | |
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| 203 | Unlike SunOS 4.x, you only need one SYSINFO binary for |
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| 204 | each Solaris 2.x release. You do not need one for each |
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| 205 | kernel architecture. i.e. SYSINFO compiled under Solaris |
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| 206 | 2.2 on a SPARC machine will run on any Solaris 2.2 SPARC |
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| 207 | machine of any kernel architecture. |
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| 208 | |
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| 209 | Under Solaris 2.2 FCS on sun4d hosts (like the |
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| 210 | SPARCcenter-2000), the kernel has an empty value for the |
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| 211 | system "root nexus". This means that you will not see a |
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| 212 | proper device tree on such systems. Various nodes will |
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| 213 | not be attached where they should be. This bug cropped |
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| 214 | up between Solaris 2.2 ER2 and FCS and is fixed in |
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| 215 | Solaris 2.3. |
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| 216 | |
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| 217 | * HP |
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| 218 | |
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| 219 | HP 9000 800 series machines are not supported unless |
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| 220 | running HP-UX 10.0 or later. |
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| 221 | |
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| 222 | * IRIX |
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| 223 | |
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| 224 | The IRIX OS comes with a command called "sysinfo" |
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| 225 | (/sbin/sysinfo) that shows a system's serial number. |
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| 226 | This normally should not present a problem since this |
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| 227 | program is not normally used by users (/sbin should not |
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| 228 | be in a normal user's $PATH) and is normally only run by |
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| 229 | programs using the explicit path of /sbin/sysinfo. |
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| 230 | However, if you do wish to install sysinfo using another |
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| 231 | name you may do so by setting the ${PROG} variable in |
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| 232 | Makefile. |
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| 233 | |
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| 234 | * AIX |
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| 235 | |
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| 236 | When looking up device information, SYSINFO uses the AIX |
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| 237 | "National Language Catalogs". This means that your $LANG |
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| 238 | environment variable must be set correctly. If it is |
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| 239 | not, SYSINFO may fail to find most device information. |
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| 240 | |
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| 241 | Support for AIX 4.* is not yet availible. I don't have |
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| 242 | access to such a machine yet. From what I can tell, |
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| 243 | though, it should be a very straight forward port - |
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| 244 | probably just modifying the Makefile. |
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| 245 | |
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| 246 | * SPP-UX |
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| 247 | |
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| 248 | In SPP-UX 2.0.2 you may see these errors at |
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| 249 | compile-time:: |
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| 250 | |
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| 251 | cc: Warning on line 109 of /usr/include/sys/wait.h: a \ |
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| 252 | bit field must have type int or unsigned int |
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| 253 | |
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| 254 | These errors are due to a bug in and/or Convex C. Convex |
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| 255 | is aware of the problem and promises a fix at some |
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| 256 | point. The errors can safely be ignored. |
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| 257 | |
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| 258 | * Ultrix, NeXT |
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| 259 | |
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| 260 | Support for these platforms has been phased out. The |
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| 261 | last version of sysinfo with support for these platforms |
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| 262 | is version 3.0.6 which is availible in |
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| 263 | ftp://usc.edu/pub/sysinfo/obsolete. |
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| 264 | |
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| 265 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 266 | This site made possible by: |
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| 267 | [Image] |
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| 268 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 269 | Michael A. Cooper |
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| 270 | Last modified: Mon Mar 9 16:32:53 PST 1998 |
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