System Information
The system information inspectors are particularly useful for identifying attributes of the running operating system.
Hardware
There is a large number of properties of the underlying hardware that you can query.
You can start with processor information:
- Q: vendor names of processors
- A: GenuineIntel
- A: GenuineIntel
- A: GenuineIntel
- A: GenuineIntel
You see that the query returns several identical entries even on a single processor systems. That is because each CPU core is referenced as its own processor.
You can collapse these identical results into a single one using the unique values
inspector, like this:
- Q: unique values of vendor names of processors
- A: GenuineIntel
Continuing, you can reference the speed of the processors:
- Q: speeds of processors
- A: 2600000000 hertz
- A: 2600000000 hertz
- A: 2600000000 hertz
- A: 2600000000 hertz
And the name:
- Q: family names of processors
- A: Core i7-3720QM
- A: Core i7-3720QM
- A: Core i7-3720QM
- A: Core i7-3720QM
Operating System
You can pull the name of the operating system:
- Q: name of operating system
- A: Mac OS X
- Q: name of operating system
- A: Win2008R2
Or the version:
- Q: (name of it, version of it) of operating system
- A: Mac OS X, 10.9.5
- Q: (name of it, version of it) of operating system
- A: Win2008R2, 6.1.7601
You can also pull the architecture:
- Q: (name of it, architecture of it) of operating system
- A: Mac OS X, x86_64
- Q: (name of it, architecture of it) of operating system
- A: Win2008R2, 6.1.7601
There are simple ways to determine the OS of an endpoint without having to do string comparisons:
- Q: windows of operating system
- A: False
- Q: unix of operating system
- A: False
- Q: mac of operating system
- A: True
On Windows systems you can also query the service pack version:
- Q: service pack major version of operating system
- A: 1
Finally you can query uptime
- Q: uptime of operating system
- A: 28 days, 20:20:22.496818
Drives
You can also query information related to mounted disk drives.
On a Mac systems:
- Q: free space of volume "Macintosh HD"
- A: 402534928384
On Windows systems:
- Q: (free spaces of it, names of it) of drives
- A: 53851201536, C: