1. LINUX
There are couple of tools available to do this job but if someone don’t like to install any additional tool to get hardware information, one can get detailed hardware information by running a very simple command on every LINUX box given as under;
dmidecode
A tool that can give you a detailed information is given as under;
lshw
Note: lshw needs to be installed.
lshw -short
The out of the above given command will look like under given;
lshw help can be found by a simple command;
lshw –help
2. WINDOWS
There are numerous tools present in the market to see hardware information of windows installed systems but a very handy and efficient tool is given by the Microsoft Windows operating system to get the hardware information in a very precise way in Microsoft Windows XP.
msinfo32
Output of the above command is given as under;
Note: To run this command go to RUN in start menu or command prompt.
systeminfo
Another very interesting and important command that can you a good picture of the hardware detail in windows system is systeminfo.
Note: To run this command go to command prompt
