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Patran provides a utility for obtaining important system information. This utility produces summary information on most of the system requirements used in this chapter and is a useful diagnostic tool when contacting MSC Customer Support. The mscinfo utility is part of the Patran Core Files installation. You will only have access to it after you have installed Patran
Microsoft Windows Platforms
On Windows, the mscinfo utility provides system summary and display information about the computer Patran is installed on, in the Notepad format. This text file can be saved to your hard drive for later use. The mscinfo utility can be run by accessing it from:
• Start>(All)Programs>MSC.Software>Patran>MSC.Info
The mscinfo utility can also be run on any version of Windows from a DOS command prompt by typing:
$P3_HOME\bin\mscinfo
where $P3_HOME is the installation directory.
This list shows the different types of information that mscinfo returns.
System Summary | OS level, Processor, Total Physical Memory, Available Physical Memory, Total Virtual Memory, Available Virtual Memory, Page File Space, and the Page File name. |
Display | Adapter Name, Type, Description, and RAM. Installed Drivers, Driver Version, resolution and color depth. |
Drives | Drive letter, description, Compression, File System (NTFS, FAT), Size, Free Space, and Volume Name. |
Environment Variables | Lists the environment variables set on the system. |
Services | Lists the services running on the system. |
Windows Error Reporting | List the errors reported by the system. |
UNIX Platforms
The mscinfo utility for UNIX has slightly different requirements and options available. This information applies only to the separate UNIX script. To run the utility, enter:
% $P3_HOME/bin/mscinfo
mscinfo will return information as shown below:
Manufacturer: GenuineIntel
Node: fontana
Model: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1500MHz i686
OS Level: SuSE Linux 9.1 (i586) 2.6.4-52-default
X Server: XFree86 4.3.99.902
Window Manager: KDE (kdm )
Motif: 2.2.3
3D Graphics Libraries: XFree86-Mesa-4.3.99.902-40 (OpenGL 1.2)
Graphics: ATI Graphics Adapter
Installed RAM: 1012 MB
Free Tmp Space: 10301080 kbytes
Swap Space: 2055 MB
The following table describes the options that can be used to access various subsets of information provided by the mscinfo utility.
Table 5‑1 mscinfo Option | Use |
mscinfo -x | Displays information pertaining to the current Xserver. Must be executed on the graphics head of the system (i.e. not from a remote login or Xterminal). |
mscinfo -v | Verbose mode - provides additional information on graphics libraries such as name, patch, or revision date. |
mscinfo -c | Displays a list of the commands used to determine system information. |