SysInfo^(TM) 4.1 Announcement

September 2, 2001

MagniComp^(TM) is pleased to announce the availability of SysInfo^(TM) version 4.1 (FINAL). SysInfo provides highly detailed data on Unix/Linux based systems. System Administrators can use SysInfo to obtain a current view operating system configuration, installed hardware including very low level device attributes, installed software, disk partitioning, and kernel parameters.

SysInfo can provide detailed system data via its GUI, Command Line Interface (CLI) output in human readable format, CLI output in program parsable format, and via C and Perl API's.

SysInfo is available in pre-compiled binary formats. Full source code can also be downloaded and built.

New Features

This release contains the following significant new features:

A Graphical User Interface (GUI) is now provided and is started by default whenever the environment supports it. The traditional Command Line Interface (CLI) is used otherwise or when a user specifies the -nw (no window) option on the command line. Screenshots are available at http://www.magnicomp.com/sysinfo/screens/
A Perl object API called mcSysInfo is now provided. Documentation can be found in mcsysinfoperl(3). The SysInfo GUI is built on top of mcSysInfo.
Up to 20X performance improvement retrieving hardware class data has been achieved on Sun's which have Veritas and/or Sun DiskSuite software installed.
Improved device idenfication, particularly for disks, on Linux.
Major documentation updates including adding more descriptions of -format report output and re-organizing man pages into smaller files.
Detailed CPU information is now provided for device class data. The new data includes everything from CPU clock speed, manufacturer, and model to detailed cache data.
The system's CPU Speed is now displayed under general class data.
Sun Fire hardware support has been added.
Improved device information, especially memory configuration, on SGI IRIX systems.
The usual assortment of hardware and OS updates for most platforms.

Bug Fixes

The following is a list of major bug fixes and changes:

Changed units of PartInfo_t.{Size,AmtUsed} from bytes to MB to fix address space limitations on some platforms.
Many other bugs have also been fixed.

See the CHANGES file for a list of specific changes/bug fixes in this release.

System Requirements

The following is a list of supported platforms:

AIX 4.1 - 4.3
BSD/OS 3.1 - 4.1
FreeBSD 3.2 - 4.0
HP-UX 10.20 - 11.00
IRIX 6.5
Linux 2.2 + glibc 2.1 (Red Hat 6.1) and later
Solaris 2.5 - 8 (SPARC)
Solaris 7 - 8 (x86)

More Information

Please see http://www.magnicomp.com/sysinfo/4.1/doc/RELEASE_NOTES.html for further details.

Availability

This release is available for download in both pre-compiled binary form and in source form from