RHCE - Part 1

Hardware Resources

• System messages
  • Detected by Kernel on boot
  • Use /bin/dmesg or /var/log/dmesg
  • /proc filesystem
    pseudo-files with hardware information:
    • meminfo, cpuinfo, interrupts, ioports, iomem, mdstat
    • bus/ , ide/, scsi/
  • Kudzu
    • /usr/sbin/kudzu
    • database of "last current HW": /etc/sysconfig/hwconf
    • catalog of known HW: /usr/share/kudzu/
  • /usr/bin/hwbrowser (as root)
    See it here