hardware server beginner query

salimshahzad · 11-04-2010, 01:23 AM

dear sirs

i have a server which was handover me, it has redhat 4 u3.

but i cant find the machine model no, it is hp g4 server, so this info from linux where can i see

2nd if i want to know what is the bios version and date how can i see from linux

3rd if any hardware failing like network card, ram memory, hard disk how we come to know hardware

kind regards,

linuxlover.chaitanya · 11-04-2010, 01:30 AM

There is lshw command that can give you information on your hardware. It is not installed by default. You will need to install it using yum.

Code:

yum install lshw

And then run the command to get all the information.

divyashree · 11-04-2010, 01:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by salimshahzad

dear sirs

i have a server which was handover me, it has redhat 4 u3.

but i cant find the machine model no, it is hp g4 server, so this info from linux where can i see

2nd if i want to know what is the bios version and date how can i see from linux

3rd if any hardware failing like network card, ram memory, hard disk how we come to know hardware

kind regards,

use these commands :

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lshal |grep bios

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cat /proc/cpuinfo

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cat /proc/meminfo

Here put hda or sda according to your hdd

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hdparm -i /dev/hda

or install lshw to get info.

divyashree · 11-04-2010, 01:38 AM

And for you h/w failure you can get the message in

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/var/log/messages

monitor that log file regularly

salimshahzad · 11-04-2010, 01:41 AM

i am trying on redhat 4 advance server the command does not return bios

i get this return

# lshal |grep bios
lshal version 0.4.2

rest hardware and bios does not show i try all above commands

divyashree · 11-04-2010, 01:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by salimshahzad

i am trying on redhat 4 advance server the command does not return bios

i get this return

# lshal |grep bios
lshal version 0.4.2

rest hardware and bios does not show i try all above commands

try this

Quote:

dmidecode

and what is the output of

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lshal