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System Info

System Info

Updates OS, prompts hostname change, displays key info (IP, MAC, network, DNS, kernel, OS, CPU, memory, disk, load, UUID). Logs to /var/log/sys_info.log.

Lab Environment Only

This tool is intended for ephemeral, short-lived lab environments and is not hardened for production use.

System Requirements

This script is designed for Ubuntu LTS and derivatives (Linux Mint, Pop!_OS). Other distributions (RHEL, Fedora, Debian, ARM) are not supported.

Installation Command

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ibtisam-iq/infra-bootstrap/main/scripts/system-checks/sys-info.sh | sudo bash

What It Does

  • Runs preflight.
  • Updates system (apt update/install deps like net-tools, curl, gpg).
  • Prompts hostname change.
  • Gathers/displays info.

Verify

  • Log: cat /var/log/sys_info.log.

  • Hostname: hostname (changed if prompted).

  • Output Example:

    📌 System Information
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 🔹 Hostname : my-lab-server
 🔹 Private IP : 192.168.1.100
 🔹 Public IP : 203.0.113.1
 🔹 MAC Address : aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
 🔹 Network : 192.168.1.100/24
 🔹 DNS : 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4
 🔹 Kernel : 5.15.0-91-generic
 🔹 OS : Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
 🔹 CPU : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700
 🔹 Memory : 15Gi
 🔹 Disk Usage : 20G / 100G
 🔹 CPU Load : 0.10, 0.20, 0.30
 🔹 UUID : 12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789abc
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Last update: January 21, 2026 11:27:57 PM