File Share Encryption

Hey guys,

How can we get the specs and current system utilization of PGP Universal Server? We're currently planning to buy another couple thousand of licens for more laptops, but one of our requirement is to check if the current hardware is capable to handle more clients.

Thank you,

Hi,

There are plenty of commands related to checking hardware/specs stuff on Linux in fact.

To summarize at least some of them you can try to run as follow please:

- hardware details

[root@keys1 ~]# lspci
[root@keys1 ~]# dmidecode

- CPU

[root@keys1 ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo

- Kernel Version

[root@keys1 ~]# uname -a

- running kernel and compiler

[root@keys1 ~]# cat /proc/version

- Memory and swap information

[root@keys1 ~]#cat /proc/meminfo

-HDD partitions

[root@keys1 ~]# fdisk -l

- HDD space

[root@keys1 ~]# df -H

-disk usage

[root@keys1 ~]# du | less

- what is taking so much space on your box running on current directory

[root@keys1 ~]# find $1 -type d | xargs du -h | sort -g

- hardware info from kernel buffer

[root@keys1 ~]# dmesg

- running processes

[root@keys1 ~]# ps afux

- view of list of processes running/utlize in real-time

[root@keys1 ~]# top

I hope this will help, you can also use the SEMS > Reproting > Overiew  (System Graphs)

CPU Usage, Message Activity, Drive Encrytpion to compare current hardware with list of users on the server.

HTH

This looks very useful thank you very much for  this. But can you tell me how can I access the linux console of the PGP Universal Server? Do we have console access throught PGP universal server? or I need to do something like ssh and stuff?

You need to access it after setting up SSH with Putty:
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH149673

Then you should be able to run any linux commands you need.

Hi Mike,

I found this in the PGP Universal Server Admin Guide:

"Caution: Accessing the PGP Universal Server command line in this way can void portions of your PGP Support agreement. Contact PGP Support for more information."

The KB you post is about accessing the PGP Command Line in ROOT, is there a way to access it as Read Only Mode? That way I can guarantee that there'll be no changes that's going to happen while I'm in the PGP Command Line.

Thank you,

Hi Adam,

Do you know the command for checking network utilization? I did my research but all of them asks for installation of a tool. We're not planning to install anything on PGP Universal Server to avoid support Voidance.

There are no other users on the server, so going in as read-only isn't an option.  Having no other users mitigates a lot of vulnerabilities that plague other servers, and is by design.