Command-line: What is this machine?

Question

is there a standard command-line for linux answering a description of the server (model, number of cores(?), speed(?)...)?

Thanks, Pierre

Answer 1

Not really no (in general, how do you define "description"?), but you can pull most of that info using dmidecode.

Answer 2

Ubuntu provides lshw in ubuntu-standard, it will be on any distribution ending with "untu". Many other distributions have their own tools, a lot of it can be found in /proc. You can find the man page for lshw here

Answer 3

dmesg shows load of your hardware too.

Answer 4

cat /proc/cpuinfo = CPU information
lspci = Shows PCI card Hardware name
uname -a = Shows kernel version, architecture & build date/host
cat /proc/meminfo = memory (wired + vm) info

These have worked on every linux system i've seen. lspci is part of the pciutils package, and relies on a database of PCI id's. The stuff in /proc would only be the pci id's)

Answer 5

Try these:

# uname -a

# dmidecode

# vpddecode