How To Get Hardware Information on AIX
Categories: Information Technology, System Administration, UNIXNeed to get hardware information on an IBM AIX server? On AIX 4.3.3 and later you can use the prtconf command.
$ prtconf
You don’t need to be root to use this command. The output includes model, serial number, processor type, number of processors, speed of processors, 32-bit or 64-bit, memory size, firmware version, network information, paging (swap) overview, volume information and a long list of available devices.
The prtconf command will only be there in AIX 4.3.3 and later but since it is just a shell script if you can find a copy of it you can easily see the commands it is calling to gather the information. The command seems to live in /usr/sbin/prtconf. If it’s not in your path you should be able to call it directly.
2 Responses to “How To Get Hardware Information on AIX”
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Russell Willman Says:
February 8th, 2007 at 4:51 pmIf you run the prtconf command you might want to also add the the following so it only displays 1 page at a time. prtconf|pg
If you would like to see all part numbers and serial numbers as well as EC levels of all installed items you can run the following command. #lscfg -p -v sys0|pg
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Ben Says:
September 26th, 2008 at 4:22 pmAdditionaly you can execute this command which will print the various serial numbers of the different devices:
#lscfg -vpl sysplanar0
