hw-probe - Hardware probe and system info collection tool
- Hardware Probe (hw-probe) A tool to probe for hardware, check operability
and find drivers
- Hardware Probe (hw-probe) is a tool to probe for hardware, check its
operability and upload result to the BSD hardware database.
- By creating probes you contribute to the "HDD/SSD Desktop-Class
Reliability Test" study: https://github.com/linuxhw/SMART
- Private information (including the username, machine's hostname, IP
addresses, MAC addresses, UUIDs and serial numbers) is NOT uploaded to the
database.
- The tool uploads 32-byte prefix of salted SHA512 hash of MAC addresses and
serial numbers to properly identify unique computers and hard drives.
UUIDs are decorated in the same way, but formatted like regular UUIDs in
order to save readability of logs. All the data is uploaded securely via
HTTPS.
-h|-help
- Print this help.
-v|-version
- Print version info.
-dumpversion
- Print the tool version (1.6) and don't do anything else.
-all
- Probe for hardware.
-log-level N
- Set the logging level to N. Available values:
- - minimal - default - maximal
-minimal|-min
- Collect minimal number of logs. Equal to
--log-level=min.
-maximal|-max
- Collect maximal number of logs. Equal to
--log-level=max.
-enable LIST
- Comma separated list of logs to enable in addition to current log
level.
-disable LIST
- Comma separated list of logs to disable in current log level. Some logs
cannot be disabled. For example, you can disable collecting of 'fstab',
but you cannot disable logging of 'smartctl'.
-check
- Check devices operability. Test performance of CPU, memory, graphics cards
and drives.
-check-extended
- Perform extended check.
-upload
- Upload result to the hardware database. You will get a permanent URL to
view the probe.
- By use of this option you confirm uploading of 32-byte prefix of salted
SHA512 hash of MAC addresses and serial numbers to prevent duplication of
computers in the DB.
-hwinfo-path PATH
- Path to a local hwinfo binary.
-proxy ADDRESS:PORT
- Set outgoing http/https proxy using syntax: proxy.domain.local:3128
-i|-inventory-id ID
- Mark the probe by inventory ID.
-generate-inventory-id
- Generate new inventory ID.
-email ADDR
- Email for node status notifications.
-start
- Start monitoring of the node.
-stop
- Stop monitoring of the node.
-remind-inventory
- Remind node inventory ID.
-save DIR
- Save probe package to DIR. This is useful if you are offline and need to
upload a probe later (with the help of -src option).
-src|-source PATH
- A probe to upload.
-fix PATH
- Update list of devices and host info in the probe using probe data.
-show-devices
- Show devices list.
-show
- Show host info and devices list.
-show-host
- Show host info only.
-verbose
- Use with -show option to show type and status of the device.
-printers
- Probe for printers.
-scanners
- Probe for scanners.
-id|-name DESC
- Any description of the probe.
- -pci-ids
- PATH
- -usb-ids
- PATH
-sdio-ids PATH
- -pnp-ids
- PATH
- Path to {pci,usb,sdio,pnp}.ids file to read missed device names.
-list
- List executed probes (for debugging).
-clean
- Do nothing. Obsolete option.
-save-uploaded
- Save uploaded probes.
-debug|-d
- Do nothing. Obsolete option.
-dump-acpi
- Probe for ACPI table.
-decode-acpi
- Decode ACPI table.
-import DIR
- Import probes from the database to DIR for offline use.
- If you are using Snap or Flatpak package, then DIR will be created in the
sandbox data directory.
- Provide inventory ID by -i option in order to import your
inventory.
- Probes info is saved in the /root/HW_PROBE directory.
A tool to probe for hardware, check operability and find drivers
License: LGPL-2.1-or-later OR BSD-4-Clause
Usage: hw-probe [options] Example: hw-probe -all
-upload
This manual page was written by Mathieu Malaterre
<malat@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by
others).