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The System Information Tool is designed to gather and display a variety of information about the hardware and software configuration of your system. The program is primarily designed for use on IBM, PS/1, PS/2, PS/Valuepoint, and ThinkPad systems, but many features will function on systems from other vendors.

The System Information Tool gathers hardware and software configuration information. This information can be viewed on-line or directed to a file or printer using your web browser or command line options. The combination of System Information Tool's sophisticated hardware information gathering abilities with System Profile's extensive selection of system and user-specific data fields results in an extraordinary flexible and useful system inventorying and information facility.

System Information Tool provides information on the following system features:

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Command Line Options

The System Information Tool can be started from a command line, and supports five command line parameters.

The command line format for System Information Tool is:

The command line parameters are as follows:

/P: filename
This parameter is used to generate a report of all the information collected by the program. A logical printer name like LPT1 can be substituted for a file name, which will send the report to a printer. The program logo screen will be displayed while the information is being gathered, and the program will terminate after the report has been generated.
/H: filename
This parameter is used to generate a binary history file that contains all of the information detected by the program, as well as the time and date that the report was generated. This file can then be used as an input source using the /F command-line parameter. The program logo screen will be displayed while the information is being gathered, and the program will terminate after the file is generated.
/F: history filename
This parameter causes the program to use a previously generated history file as the source for information gathering, rather use than the physical system the program is being executed on. You can use this option to view a history file from another system.
/NOLOGO
When this parameter is used, the program logo will not be displayed. This parameter can be used in conjunction with any of the other parameters.
/B
This parameter causes the program to bypass all warning and informational messages while the program is starting. This could be used for unattended system startups. This parameter can be used in conjunction with any of the other parameters.

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Exiting

To exit the System Information Tool service, select the "Netfinity" image on the top or bottom of the System Information Tool service to return to the Netfinity services screen.

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