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How can I check what OS my servers are running?

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    By reading the documentation you made when setting them up.
    – Lucas Kauffman
    Jul 23, 2012 at 21:21
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    That depends on what OS your server is running.
    – kasperd
    Jul 4, 2015 at 7:36
  • If you are ssh-ing on them, it is some unix. An uname -a command says what you want. If you are rdesktopping on it, it is a windows, so win/E, right click on "My Computer", and...
    – peterh
    Jul 4, 2015 at 15:47

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On Windows servers, you can have some info with the "srvinfo" command

On linux, try "uname -ra"

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    or "lsb_release -a" on Linux, too.
    – weeheavy
    Jan 12, 2011 at 13:44
  • msinfo32 works on just about every version of Windows for the last decade; the uname command works on almost all *nix platforms.
    – Chris S
    Jan 12, 2011 at 13:46
  • On Linux cat /etc/issue will give you more details about the distribution. There are also some special files: SUSE: /etc/SuSE-release, RedHat: /etc/redhat-release.
    – Christian
    Jan 12, 2011 at 14:13
  • cool - did not know about srvinfo
    – August
    Jan 12, 2011 at 15:00
  • Srv info is also useful for getting the server's uptime by the way
    – Florent Courtay
    Jan 12, 2011 at 15:40

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