The mscinfo Utility

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

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:

The mscinfo¹ utility can also be run on any version of Windows from a DOS command prompt by typing:

where $P3_HOME² 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.

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.

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:

mscinfo will return information as shown below³:

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.

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.

¹ The mscinfo option flags for UNIX are not available on the Windows platforms.

² Throughout this document you will see Patran’s installation directory referenced as $P3_HOME.

³ You must have root privilege to obtain complete graphics and virtual memory information on Hewlett Packard HP-UX. Running as a general user provides all other data.