Inquisitor

I was going to write about Inquisitor again after finishing writing about the cluster, but I forgot until now.

Since I had more patience this time to fiddle around with it, I found that it actually Actually, it seems like I never wrote about it before today.

I found Inquisitor on DistroWatch, and even though it's discontinued, I decided to give it a try to see if it helped me get info about a machine pretty quickly.

When I initially tested it, I found that it had the ability to test the system, and since I didn't have a lot of patience, I didn't see that it had the ability to pull hardware info, so I put it aside.

I decided to give it another try this morning when trying to find out specifics about the processor of the cluster nodes. Eventually I found an action called "Detects" and, unfortunately, the description for it just says "Detects only". I figured it probably detected the hardware, and ran it, which then let me know that it was finished detecting hardware (controller, cpu, etc) and to press enter to return to the main menu.

I then went to view the logs (having known about that part before) and saw "lshw.log", "lspci.log", and a few other logs. I checked lspci first, which told me that the cluster had a gigabit ethernet controller, which surprised me, and afterwards, I checked lshw for the processor.

Now that understand how to use Inquisitor to check a machine's hardware, I'll keep it with me as part of my toolkit, even though it's a discontinued distribution.