SysInfo displays various types of information about a host’s hardware and operating system (OS) software. It is intended to provide information in both human readable and program parsable formats. System Administrators can use SysInfo to obtain hardware asset information and OS configuration information. Programs that use SysInfo can obtain this information in a platform independent manner. The amount of information displayed varies by operating system. Here are some of the types of information that may be provided (varies by platform):

• Host name

• Host name aliases

• Host network addresses

• Host ID

• System serial number

• Manufacturer of the system’s hardware

• System model name

• CPU type

• Application architecture

• Kernel architecture

• Amount of main memory

• Operating system name

• Operating system version

• Kernel version

• A variety of information about devices

• A variety of different kernel parameters

• A variety of different system configuration parameters