Dmidecode Hardware Information
Display information about the processor cpu sudo dmidecode t processor memory ram information sudo dmidecode t memory bios details sudo dmidecode t bios.
Dmidecode hardware information. This table contains a description of the systems hardware components and also other useful information such as serial number bios revision etc. Dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer s dmi some say smbios table contents in a human readable format. Dmidecode command reads the system dmi table to display hardware and bios information of the server. Apart from getting current configuration of the system you can also get information about maximum supported configuration of the system using dmidecode.
It extracts hardware information by reading data from the smbois data structures also called dmi tables. Dmidecode with options t or type and id will provide us the exact infromation. Dmi id give us particular hardware information of system. Dmidecode command reads the system dmi desktop management interface table to display hardware and bios information of the server.
Dmidecode command is used when the user want to retrieve system s hardware related information such as processor ram dimms bios detail memory serial numbers etc. In addition to the bios dmi table info on hardware that you also get from dmidecode it can gather information from e g. The data is printed in a tabular form and it contains a description of the system s hardware components as well as other useful pieces of information such as serial numbers and bios revision. Id 6 will give us memory module information.
The output of the dmidecode contains several records from the dmi table. Dmidecode is a tool or command which is used to retrieve the useful information of your system s hardware components in human readable format. Dmidecode stands for dmi desktop management interface table decoder as the name suggests it reads the data from dmi table and represents to us in human readable format. The dmidecode command is different from all other commands.
Dmidecode also referred as desktop management interface table decoder record data from dmi table and produce it in human readable format. This table contains a description of the system s hardware components as well as other useful pieces of information such as serial numbers and bios revision. Of linux system in a readable format. Dmidecode is available for all the linux like systems rhel centos debian and suse.
Thanks to this table you can retrieve this information without having to probe for the actual hardware. Email protected dmidecode t 6 dmidecode 2 11 smbios version fixup 2 31 2 3. Dmidecode command not only displays the system s current hardware configuration but also the maximum supported cpu and memory.