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Friday, November 23, 2012

General hardware, software, and environment information to collect for Solaris, HP-UX and Windows


Whenever we are reporting for any issue to support team they are usually ask these details

·         Operating system version
·         Operating system patches or maintenance level
·         Operating system environment variables
·         Operating system configuration & error reporting
·         Operating system kernel parameters
·         Operating system processes
·         Mounted file systems and disk resources
·         Hostname information and network information


Solaris
Command
Collects
prtdiag
Machine hardware information, CPUs
uname -a
operating system version
showrev
operating system level summary
patchadd -p
operating system System patches
env
operating system environment variable
sysdef
operating system System Definition
ulimit -a
operating system current ulimit (system resources) settings
ps -ef > ps.log
operating system processes, saved in ps.log file
mount
List of the mounted file systems with location of scratch and permanent disk resources
df -k
Description of the amount of space available on each mounted file system
ifconfig -a
Network interfaces on the system, including the associated IP address
hostname
DNS name for this system
/usr/bin/dmesg
operating system configuration and error reporting
Collect:  /etc/services
          /etc/hosts
          /etc/profile
          /etc/security/limits.conf
System configuration files



HP-UX
Command
Collects
model
Machine hardware model
uname -a
operating system version
swlist
operating system Software installed
env
operating system environment variable
sysdef
operating system System Definition
ulimit -f
operating system current ulimit (system resources) settings
ps -ef > ps.log
operating system processes, saved in ps.log file
showmount -e
List of the mounted file systems with location of scratch and permanent disk resources
bdf
Description of the amount of space available
ifconfig lo0
Network interfaces on the system, including the associated IP address
hostname
DNS name for this system
Collect:  /etc/services
          /etc/hosts
          /etc/profile
          /etc/security/limits.conf
System configuration files



Windows
Command
Collects
systeminfo
Hardware information summary
winver or ver
operating system version
winmsd   or
start /wait msinfo32.exe /category SystemSummary+SWEnv /report summary.txt
operating system patches or maintenance level.
Creates summary.txt file with system information
set
operating system environment variable
·         cscript C:\windows\system32\eventquery.vbs /L application /R 1000 /V
·         cscript C:\windows\system32\eventquery.vbs /L system /R 1000 /V
·         cscript C:\windows\system32\eventquery.vbs /L security /R 1000 /V
operating system configuration and error reporting
REG QUERY HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall /S
Software installed in the system
netstat -an netstat.log
Network connections
Collect:
   
<drive>:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
    <drive>:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\services 
System configuration file


Hoping this will help you to report issues... :-)


till then.....
njoy the simplicity.......