collectHardwareInventory

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The collectHardwareInventory command collects the hardware inventory from IBM® PowerKVM system in a compressed file format.

Synopsis

collectHardwareInventory

Description

The collectHardwareInventory command collects the hardware inventory and generates a compressed file of the collection and saves at /tmp. The compressed file esaHWColl-yyyymmddhhmmss.zip contains the lsvpd.out and free.out files. The lsvpd.out file contains the list of vital product data of the hardware and firmware. The free.out file contains the memory usage information (such as Total memory, Available memory, Free memory, Swap memory).

Usage

To view the hardware inventory collection, follow these steps:
  1. Log in to the IBM PowerKVM system.
  2. In command line, go to /opt/ibm/seprovider/bin.
  3. Run the command collectHardwareInventory.

Examples

This example illustrates running the collectHardwareInventory command successfully.
./collectHardwareInventory
output filepath is /tmp/esaHWcoll-20150522014006.zip