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.