Gather information from a Windows system
Published by exdone
Posted on September 10, 2015
Being a advocate for open source operating systems. There are times when we need to work on a Windows system. While trying to determine the serial/model number for a system. We came across a interesting API built into Windows called Windows Management Instrumentation .
The command we used was
“wmic bios get serialnumber”
and for the mother board model
“wmic csproduct get name”
You can also just type wmic to access the cli
Linux:
0. dmidecode
1. /sbin/lspci -> h/w info
2. lspci -> chipset and pci bus info
3. dmesg -> sys info
4. dmesg | tail -> search all devices attached to the sys.
5. /proc/cpuinfo -> cpu info
6. /etc/issue -> version info
7. lsmod -> kernel info
8. uname -r -> kernel info
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