How to get the System Profile in Linux, Mac and Windows.

In the daily activity as System Administrator is common to have the need of to get the system profile of all machines in our environment. In order to complete such task we have several tools depending of the system, at next we'll see some commands and tools:

Linux:

Info related with cpu characteristics:

# cat /proc/cpuinfo

Get the memory size:

# free -m

Get the hard disk details:

# df -h

Print system info, kernel version and linux distro.

# uname -a
# cat /etc/issue

List all PCI device, this command is used in order to get information related with the hardware.

# lspci

List the information related with the memory.

# dmidecode -t memory


Mac:

Reports system hardware and software configuration

# system_profiler

Windows:

I recommend the software PC Wizard 2009.

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