Need 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.
