NetIQ Documentation: Novell® PlateSpin® Recon 3.7.4 User Guide - Inventory and Monitoring Commands for Linux, Solaris and AIX

B.8 Inventory and Monitoring Commands for Linux, Solaris and AIX

This section contains lists of commands used by PlateSpin Recon during inventory and monitoring.

Table B-7 Inventory Commands for Solaris

Command	Description
kstat	Get network connection speed.
chmod	Change file access permissions for the inventory script that is placed on the machine being inventoried.
rm	Remove the inventory script that was placed on the machine.
prtdiag	Get CPU cache information and machine model for Sparc.
psrinfo	Get processor information such as family, model, step, etc., which are related to x86 mainly.
isainfo	Get CPU instruction set information such as sse, sse2, mmx, etc., which are related to x86 mainly.
prtconf	Get configured device information, which is related to L2 cache information of x86, network adapter resolving, and ACPI support.
ifconfig	Get network related information such as IP address, DHCP, net mask, etc.
ndd	Get network connection speed.
uname	Determine kernel version.
mount	Get boot loader.
pkginfo	Get installed programs.
ps	Get process information.
who	Get run level.
hostname	Get host name.

Table B-8 Inventory Commands for Linux

Command	Description
chkconfig	Get service(daemon) information.
df	Get size information for the mounted volumes
mount	Get volume information.
e2label	Get disk label.
route	Get gateway.
ifconfig	Get network related information such as IP address, net address, and so on.
egrep	Get DHCP information.
getcfg	Get DHCP for SUSE.
rpm	Get installed programs.
lspci	Get PCI device information such as vendor name, device model in human readable format.
iwconfig	Get wireless network adapter NIC list.
iwlist	Get wireless bit rate.
ethtool	Get speed and link status for network connection. If the command does not return a value for the speed, a default speed of 100 Mbps is considered.
dmesg	Get real MAC address.
kudzu	Get network device information for Redhat Linux.
hwinfo	Get network adapter information for SUSE Linux.
fdisk	Determine if a partition is active or not.
runlevel	Get current run level.
hostname	Get host name and DNS domain name.
xm info	Get memory information from Xen machine.

NOTE:Novell PlateSpin Recon supports AIX 5.3 TL7 or later.

Table B-9 Inventory Commands for AIX

Command	Description
rpm	Get a list of installed programs.
ps	Get service (daemon) information.
mount	Get list of mounted volumes.
df	Get size information for mounted volumes.
lslv	Get SerialNumber and Label for mounted volumes.
hostname	Get hostname.
namerslv	Get DNS domain name.
getconf	Determine whether a 64-bit kernel.
uname	Determine OS release version.
ifconfig	Get configured network adapters and their IP address.
netstat	Get MAC address.
entstat	Get speed of network adapter.
prtconf	Get processor information and default gateway.
lspv	Get list of disks and their partitions.
bootinfo	Get disk size.
lscfg	Get disk model, manufacturer and type and network adapter model.
lsitab	Get daemon information.
getconf	Get machine memory and bootloader information.
lsattr	Get machine serial number and model,hyperthreading details and subnet mask.

Table B-10 Monitoring Commands for Linux and Solaris

Command	Platform	Description
psrinfo	Solaris	count processor number.
mpstat	Solaris	Get processor time per cpu instance.
vmstat	Solaris	Get processor queue length and memory available.
ifconfig	Solaris, Linux	Get NIC list.
sed	Solaris, Linux	Edit input stream.
tail	Solaris, Linux	Edit input stream.
netstat	Solaris	Get network package transfer rate.
kstat	Solaris	Get NIC speed.
prtconf	Solaris	Get module and instance binding for NIC.
iostat	Solaris	Get disk io information such as queue and speed.
expr	Solaris, Linux	evaluate express.

NOTE:Novell PlateSpin Recon supports AIX 5.3 TL7 or later.

Table B-11 AIX Monitoring Commands

Command	Description
vmstat	Get Available Memory in Bytes
ifconfig	Get NIC information
entstat	Get Network Packets, Bytes Send/Received
mpstat	Get Percentage processor time
iostat	Get Disk transfer per second, disk idle, disk byte per second
sar	Get Disk Queue length, Percentage processor used
lspv	Get Disk partitioned or Unpartitioned space, disk list
bootinfo	Get disk size
df	Get the volume level information
oslevel	Get the version of AIX

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