Appliance Administration:System Information

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The rPath Appliance Platform Agent (rAPA) includes a System Information task which is enabled by default. In this task, a rAPA user can view information about the underlying hardware, disk usage, and installed software. The following is displayed by default:

• The DNS hostname of the appliance
• The amount of memory (RAM) and swap space allocated to the appliance and free for appliance operations:
  • If the appliance is running directly on server hardware, this is the total amount of memory on that hardware.
  • If the appliance is running as a virtual machine, this is the amount of memory allocated to that virtual machine, which is only a part of the memory on which the hypervisor is running.
• The uptime, which is the amount of time the appliance has been running since its last boot
• The brand and specifications for the processor hardware on which the appliance is running
• The storage on and mounted to the appliance, including the total size of each disk partition, the type of filesystem on each partition, and the available space remaining for storage
• The installed software on the appliance, stated in the way the software is packaged on the underlying system:
  • A "group" in Conary package management is a way of determining all the software that should be installed on an appliance.
  • A Conary group is used to create the image originally used to install the appliance.
  • The group's version number (displayed in this system information) typically matches the version of the appliance itself. That group, in turn, defines the version of each software package associated with that version of the group.
  • The appliance identifies a virtual location (called a "label") within a network-accessible repository on which the software group resides, and it uses that repository label when checking for and obtaining software updates.
  • The vendor providing the appliance is responsible for providing the software updates as needed on the repository label.

To monitor and manage the services running on the underlying operating system, use the Manage Services task in rAPA.