Supported System Matrix

The following table indicates what host computer platforms are supported for this release of SysInfo™. This list is subject to change.

Table 1.1. Supported Platforms

Supported Classes
Operating SystemManufacturerPlatform
AIXIBMpSeries (RS6000)YY YYYYYYYYYYYY YYY

Supported OS Versions: 5.1 - 6.1

FreeBSD IA32 (x86)YYYYYYY Y YYYYY YY

Supported OS Versions: 5.2 and later 5.x

HP-UXHPPA-RISC (HP9000)YY YYYYYYYYYYYYY YYY

Supported OS Versions: 11.00 - 11.31 (11i v3)

NOTES: HP-UX 11.11 is 11i v1, HP-UX 11.23 is 11i v2, HP-UX 11.31 is 11i v3.

HP-UXHPIA64 (Itanium-2)YY YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Supported OS Versions: 11i v2 - v3

NOTES: HP-UX 11.23 is 11i v2, HP-UX 11.31 is 11i v3.

IRIXSGIMIPSYY YYYY Y YYYYY YYY

Supported OS Versions: 6.5

Linux IA32 (x86)YYYYYYYYY YYYYY YYYY

Supported OS Versions: 2.4, 2.6

Supported Distributions: Red Hat Linux 7.1 - 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 - 5, Fedora 1 - 7, SuSe Linux 8.0 - 10.1, SuSe Linux Enterprise Server 9 - 10, SuSe Linux Enterprise Desktop 10. Other distributions with Linux kernel 2.4 or 2.6, and glibc 2.1 and later should also work.

Linux IA64 (Itanium)YY YYYYYY YYYYY YYYY

Supported OS Versions: 2.4, 2.6

Supported Distributions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 - 5 on Itanium-2 based systems.

Linux x64 AMD64/EM64TYYYYYYYYY YYYYY YYYY

Supported OS Versions: 2.4, 2.6

Supported Distributions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 - 5, SuSe Linux Enterprise Server 9 - 10, SuSe Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.

MacOS XApplePowerMac (PowerPC)YY YYYYYY YYYYY YY

Supported OS Versions: 10.3.9 - 10.5

NOTES: GUI requires Apple's X11 for OS X software.

MacOS XAppleIntel Mac (X86)YY YYYYYY YYYYY YY

Supported OS Versions: 10.4 - 10.5

NOTES: GUI requires Apple's X11 for OS X software.

SolarisSunSPARC (32/64-bit)YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Supported OS Versions: 2.6 - 10.

Service class supported in Solaris 10 and later.

SolarisSunIA32 (x86)YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Supported OS Versions: 7 - 10

Service class supported in Solaris 10 and later.

Bios class supported in Solaris 10 06/06 and later.

SolarisSunx64 AMD64/EM64TYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Supported OS Versions: 10

Bios class supported in Solaris 10 06/06 and later.

Windows IA32/x86 32-bit, x64 AMD64/EM64T 64-bitYYYY YYYYYYYY Y YYY

Supported Versions (32-bit): Windows 2000 Professional, Server 2000, XP Home, XP Professional, Vista (all editions), Server 2003 (all editions), Server 2008 (all editions)

Supported OS Versions (64-bit): Windows XP Professional x64, Vista (all editions), Server 2003 x64 (all editions), Server 2008 x64 (all editions)

Platform Specific Notes

Table 1.2. Platform Specific Notes

HP-UX
  • If you are running HP-UX 11.00 you must install a current HP Quality Pack or else the SysInfo™ Agent will not work. To obtain a current QP from HP, please visit http://www.esca.hp.com/us/.

MacOS X
  • The SysInfo™ GUI requires that you have Apple's X11 package (in older MacOS releases this is called X11 User for OS X) installed prior to installing SysInfo™. These packages are not part of MacOS X 10.1 - 10.2 and must be downloaded from Apple at http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx. On MacOS X 10.3 and later, this package is located on the MacOS X installation disc, but is usually not installed by default.

  • SysInfoPrinter class data is supported on MacOS X 10.2 or later. It is not supported on earlier releases.

FreeBSD
  • FreeBSD 5.0 and 5.1 are not supported due to bugs in the OS provided stdarg wide string functions like vswprintf().

Windows
  • On Windows XP x64 SP1, SysInfo™ will not report much, if any data due to significant bugs in the Windows bundled DLLs. This problem is fixed by applying a current set of Microsoft Security Updates via Microsoft Update, Windows Update, or manually. The exact update which fixes these problems is not known.