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.TH mcsysinfo 1 "6 April 2003"
.ds ]W www.MagniComp.com
.SH NAME
mcsysinfo \- MagniComp(TM) SysInfo(TM) \- display detailed system information in a platform neutral manner
.SH "DOCUMENTATION GUIDE"
.nf
mcsysinfocli(1)         Command Line Interface (CLI)
mcsysinfogui(1)         Graphical User Interface (GUI)
mcsysinfoc(3)           C API
mcsysinfoperl(3)        Perl API
mcsysinfocf(5)          Configuration database file
mcsysinforc(5)          Runtime runtime configuration file
mcsysinforeport(5)      Description of "\-\-format report" output
mcsysinfod(8)           SysInfo(TM) Protocol (SSP) server
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B MagniComp(TM)'s
.B SysInfo(TM)
provides Unix/Linux System Administrators with extremely detailed,
platform independent
hardware,
software, and OS configuration data for most Unix/Linux platforms. 
.B SysInfo(TM)
enables System Administrators to quickly see a high level view of a
system's configuration or dive deeply into very low level
configuration data. You can grab something as "simple" as a system's
model name or you can plunge down to detailed information on disk
drives to view a drive's serial number and RPM speed.
.PP
.B SysInfo(TM)
supports both a sophisticated Command Line Interface (CLI)
for consumption by both humans and programs,
as well as a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to browse the volumes of
data available.
In addition, the following APIs are supported:
.RS
- Easy shell script embedding (see \fBmcsysinfocli(1)\fR)
.br
- Program parsable output (see \fBmcsysinforeport(1)\fR)
.br
- Perl API (see \fBmcsysinfoperl(3)\fR)
.br
- C API (see \fBmcsysinfoc(3)\fR)
.RE
.PP
Here is just some of the types of information that may be provided:
.br
.RS
.br
- Extremely detailed hardware (device) information
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- System serial number
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- Manufacturer of the system's hardware
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- System model name
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- CPU type
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- Application architecture
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- Kernel architecture
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- Amount of main memory
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- Operating system name
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- Operating system version
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- Kernel version
.RE
The detail of information varies according to the underlying abilities of 
each OS, but the
data is provided in a consistant manner across all supported platforms.
.PP
For more topic oriented detailed information, please see one of the
man pages listed in the
.B "DOCUMENTATION GUIDE"
section at the top of this document.
.SH URL
http://www.MagniComp.com/sysinfo