Comments on: Get Information About Your BIOS / Server Hardware From a Shell Without Opening Chassis ( BIOS Decoder )

By: martin

martin — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:42:48 +0000

thanks as well.

By: Drieman

Drieman — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:25:53 +0000

By now this is an old thread, but still I’d like to add… Nice article! Thanks!

By: pg

pg — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 16:35:52 +0000

This is indeed very useful information.

However, be aware that parsing BIOS memory on a live server can have negative consequences. I have just seen dmidecode halt Apache on a live webserver. If you choose to run dmidecode on a live server: immediately check end user experience to verify vital services have not been halted or interrupted. In my case, Apache reported up, but all httpd processes and dependent processes such as mysql and php were terminated.

By: jürgen

jürgen — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:49:51 +0000

you can use smartstart scripting toolkit for linux
or hpasmcli

By: jürgen

jürgen — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:49:02 +0000

use: hpasmcli -s “show server”

By: ROD

ROD — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:48:28 +0000

I want commercial information like “HP Proliant DL380 G5″ or SERVER TYPE using Linux command

By: Jairo

Jairo — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:31:56 +0000

Very nice. it help me a lot.

By: Charanjit Singh

Charanjit Singh — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:42:31 +0000

Nice Article, really helpful in audit.

By: SIFE

SIFE — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:57:21 +0000

Salamo Alikom
can i do this in assembly ?

By: Nix

Nix — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:23:39 +0000

Nice…. :-)

Is there any way from where I can change BIOS values/options from Linux Console.
e.g. Changing Boot priority from HDD to CDROM or PXE.

By: Anand Babu

Anand Babu — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:55:33 +0000

i really love it

thanks,

By: Hilaire

Hilaire — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:19:12 +0000

Do you have a Bios Decoder for Windows servers in a script format or command to obtain the same information described in this article.
Very intersting article indeed.
Thank you, Zirigo

By: Francisco Ramirez

Francisco Ramirez — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:41:27 +0000

Very good tool, however it would be nice if you could do a compressed list like lshw -short does.
Just my 2cents tho.

By: Giovanni

Giovanni — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:37:13 +0000

Great resource!
Thanks!

By: Gaurav

Gaurav — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:16:33 +0000

It’s great and I got more than what I want.

By: Harpreet

Harpreet — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:21:52 +0000

Thanks Buddy :) Its works

By: vivek sharma

vivek sharma — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:48:31 +0000

i am frequent visitor to this site and i get lot of suitable information. please help me in writing shell script for getting information of thumb drive like id no., name of manufacturer, hostname who has inserted in etc… similarly for CDROM also…
please help me out…
thanks
regards

By: Ryan D

Ryan D — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:53:27 +0000

i work in a school as a IT manager. i need to get into the bios through command prompt and check the memory and other things. what is the code to do so.

all suggestions would be kindly accepted

By: kkd

kkd — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:01:11 +0000

hi, I will study to vsftpd. I want help me to source.

By: Raj

Raj — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:48:01 +0000

+1 thanks – very handy tool