Retrieve Hardware Information Using dmidecode on Linux

Display Linux hardware and BIOS information

The Linux dmidecode command reads the system DMI (Desktop Management Interface) table to display hardware and BIOS information of the server. A sample output of the dmidecode command is shown below:

# dmidecode | head -15
# dmidecode 2.11
SMBIOS 2.7 present.
140 structures occupying 6178 bytes.
Table at 0x000E9C70.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
        Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
        Version: 4.6.1010
        Release Date: 04/27/2012
        Address: 0xF0000
        Runtime Size: 64 kB
        ROM Size: 16384 kB
        Characteristics:
                PCI is supported

dmidecode command to text file

You can direct the output of dmidecode command to a text file as shown on the example below.

# dmidecode > dmidecode.txt

Please forward the output file from dmidecode to Napatech Technical Support for further assistance.