Checking installed hardware components

Owned by Joey Houy (Unlicensed)
Jul 18, 2019

A few options to check for installed hardware components for the system; besides looking for it physically.

BIOS

Access BIOS, view/learn the options in the BIOS menu; check CPU and Memory topology.

IPMI

Access IPMI, view/learn the options in the web GUI, and view the hardware health/information. You will also find logs there that will report system issues possibly caused by any of the installed hardware.

Linux Commands

CPU

lscpu

Memory

Total capacity: free -m

Population by slot: dmidecode -t memory

Drives

fdisk -l

RAID

cat /proc/mdstat

Network devices

lspci | grep -i eth <or the make/model>

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialNetworking.html

https://opensource.com/life/16/6/how-configure-networking-linux

Graphics card

Examples are NVIDIA-specific since they are more commonly used on our end.

nvidia-smi

lspci | grep -i eth