A.8 Linux/Solaris Inventory and Monitoring Commands

This section contains lists of commands used by PlateSpin Recon during inventory and monitoring.

A.8.1 Inventorying Solaris

Table A-7 Inventorying Commands

Command

Description

 
kstat

#Get network connection speed. 

chmod

#Change file access permissions for the inventory script that is placed on the machine being inventoried.

rm

#Remove the inventory script that was placed on the machine.

prtdiag

#Get CPU cache information and machine model for Sparc. 

psrinfo

#Get processor information such as family, model, step, etc., which are related to x86 mainly. 

isainfo

#Get CPU instruction set information such as sse, sse2, mmx, etc., which are related to x86 mainly. 

prtconf 

#Get configured device information, which is related to L2 cache information of x86, network adapter resolving, and ACPI support.

ifconfig 

#Get network related information such as IP address, DHCP, net mask, etc.

ndd 

#Get network connection speed.

uname 

#Determine kernel version.

mount 

#Get boot loader.

pkginfo 

#Get installed programs.

ps 

#Get process information.

who 

#Get run level.

hostname

#Get host name.

A.8.2 Inventorying LINUX

Table A-8 Inventorying Commands

Command

Description

 
chkconfig 

#Get service(daemon) information.

df 

#Get volume information.

mount

#Get volume information.

e2label 

#Get disk label.

route 

#Get gateway.

ifconfig 

#Get network related information such as IP address, net address, and so on.

egrep 

#Get DHCP information.

getcfg (SUSE*) 

#Get DHCP for SUSE.

rpm 

#Get installed programs.

lspci 

#Get PCI device information such as vendor name, device model in human readable format.

iwconfig 

#Get wireless network adapter NIC list.

iwlist 

#Get wireless bit rate.

ethtool 

#Get speed and link status for network connection.

dmesg 

#Get real MAC address.

kudzu (Redhat*) 

#Get network device information for Redhat Linux.

hwinfo (SUSE) 

#Get network adapter information for SUSE Linux.

fdisk 

#Determine if a partition is active or not.

runlevel 

#Get current run level.

hostname

#Get host name and DNS domain name.

A.8.3 Monitoring

Table A-9 Monitoring Commands

Command

Description

 
psrinfo (SunOS*) 

#count processor number.

mpstat  (SunOS)

#Get processor time per cpu instance.

vmstat (SunOS)

#Get processor queue length and memory available.

ifconfig  

#Get NIC list.

sed  

#Edit input stream.

tail  

#Edit input stream.

netstat (SunOS) 

#Get network package transfer rate.

kstat (SunOS)

#Get NIC speed.

prtconf (SunOS)

#Get module and instance binding for NIC.

iostat (SunOS)

#Get disk io information such as queue and speed.

expr 

#evaluate express.

A.8.4 Text Processing

grep, cat, cut, awk, ls