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I want to know what is command which will show me servers hardware [through ssh access], like how much Gb RAM is installed, cpu speed, and so on.

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quick and dirty way:

cat /proc/meminfo

cat /proc/cpuinfo

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lshw

I have found lshw to be an invaluable resource in gathering hardware information that is otherwise difficult to gather without cracking the servers case (BIOS version, Motherboard model number, which slots of RAM are populated, etc)

A good writeup/overview of lshw can be found here

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Always good to find out about commands that I'd never heard of +1 for teaching me something new. – Richard Holloway Mar 8 '10 at 14:44
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More specific information about hardware may be given by a dmidecode command.

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Try the following commands:

free -m
cat /proc/cpuinfo  | grep -E "(model name|cpu MHz)"
lspci
less /var/log/dmesg (or just exec dmesg)

This will first show you the amount of RAM (in MB) installed in your system. Then the CPU Name and speed - it will output it for each (virtual)core. lspci lists all PCI devices and the dmesg log shows you all kernel messages which include initialization of hardware.

That should cover about everything they build into your system.

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