Boxes Of Tat: UNIX System Information

HP-UX

Hewlett Packard's (HP) UNIX for their HP 9000 (Wikipedia) line of workstations and servers. While HP-UX (Wikipedia) was originally based on System III, modern versions are more akin to System V.

Probably best known for its use on HP's PA-RISC (Wikipedia) based systems.

System Overview

An overview of the system configuration, including operating system and hardware information, can be obtained using /opt/ignite/bin/print_manifest:

# /opt/ignite/bin/print_manifest

System Information
    Your Hewlett-Packard computer has software installed and 
    configured as follows.
    The system was created June 13, 2002, 06:46:48 EDT.
    It was created with Ignite-UX revision B.5.1.32.
-------------------------------------------------------------
NOTE: You should retain this information for future reference.
-------------------------------------------------------------

System Hardware
    Model:              9000/785/C360
    Main Memory:        1536 MB
    Processors:         1
    OS mode:            64 bit
    HW capability:      32 or 64 bit
    LAN hardware ID:    0x00108303DEDA
    Software ID:        2011398448
    Keyboard Language:  PS2_DIN_UK_English_Euro
...

Installed Packages

A summary of the currently installed packages can be obtained with swlist:

$ swlist
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "ulmus.bioinfo-user.org.uk"...
#
# Target:  ulmus.bioinfo-user.org.uk:/
#
#
# Bundle(s):
#
  100BaseT-01                   B.11.11.01     HP-PB 100BaseT;Supptd HW=A3495A;SW=J2759BA 
  B6848BA                       1.4.gm.46.2    Ximian GNOME 1.4 GTK+ Libraries for HP-UX 11.00 and 11i 
  B8111AA                       1.2.2.15.00    Java 2 RTE for HP-UX (700/800), PA1.1 + PA2.0 Add On 
  B8465BA                       A.01.05.08     HP WBEM Services for HP-UX 
...
  perl                          B.5.6.1.F      Perl Programming Language 
  scsiU320-00                   B.11.11.00     PCI SCSI U320; Supptd HW=A7173A 
#
# Product(s) not contained in a Bundle:
#
  bash                          3.00.14        bash           
  gcc                           3.4.3          gcc            
  gettext                       0.14.1         gettext        
  libiconv                      1.9.2          libiconv       
  make                          3.80           make           
  tar                           1.15           tar

System Patches

/usr/contrib/bin/show_patches

HP-UX system patch level. Requires the HP-UX Patch Tools package, which is bundled with HP-UX 11i v3, for earlier versions of HP-UX 11 they can be installed using a patch.

# show_patches -a -s

Display active and superseded patches on the system.

System Type/Model

The system model is returned by model. For example, for a C360 workstation:

$ model
9000/785/C360

Hardware Summary

An overview of the installed hardware.

$ ioscan
H/W Path      Class                     Description
===================================================
              bc                        
8             bc                        I/O Adapter
8/0               ba                    GSCtoPCI Bridge
8/0/19/0                ext_bus         SCSI C87x Ultra Wide Single-Ended
8/0/19/0.5                 target       
8/0/19/0.5.0                  disk      SEAGATE ST34520WS
8/0/19/0.6                 target       
8/0/19/0.6.0                  disk      SEAGATE ST34572WS
8/0/19/0.7                 target       
8/0/19/0.7.0                  ctl       Initiator
8/0/20/0                lan             HP PCI 10/100Base-TX Core
8/0/63               tty                Built-in RS-232C
8/16              ba                    Core I/O Adapter
8/16/0               ext_bus            Built-in Parallel Interface
8/16/1               audio              Built-in Audio
8/16/4               tty                Built-in RS-232C
8/16/5               ext_bus            Built-in SCSI
8/16/5.7                target          
8/16/5.7.0                 ctl          Initiator
8/16/7               ps2                Built-in Keyboard/Mouse
10            bc                        I/O Adapter
10/0              ba                    GSCtoPCI Bridge
10/12             graphics              Graphics
32            processor                 Processor
49            memory                    Memory

While devices are not specifically identified, we do get the device types.

Boxes Of Tat

Wednesday 12 May 2021

UNIX System Information - HP-UX