ORACLE LINUX: How To Check And Export BIOS Settings In Linux From Operation System Command Line? ("ubiosconfig" Command)

Below ubiosconfig command can be used to print all the BIOS related settings from Operation System Command line.

ubiosconfig export all

Please note that oracle-hmp-tools-ubiosconfig Oracle Hardware Management Pack package should be installed for running above ubiosconfig command.

In case if you want to export all the BIOS settings into a file, below command can be used.

ubiosconfig export all > /tmp/bios-config.xml

Above command will save the output inside /tmp/bios-config.xml file.

Below is example snippet of BIOS configurations shown from above ubiosconfig command.

      <Processor_Configuration>
        <!-- Hyper-Threading ALL -->
        <!-- Description: Enables Hyper Threading (Software Method to Enable/Disable Logical Processor threads. -->
        <!-- Possible Values: "Disabled", "Enabled" -->
        <Hyper-Threading_ALL>Enabled</Hyper-Threading_ALL>

        <!-- Active Processor Cores -->
        <!-- Description: Number of cores to enable in each processor package. Must not exceed number of cores available. See Main > CPU Information >
Processor Cores. -->
        <!-- Possible Values: "All", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11", "12", "13", "14", "15", "16", "17", "18", "19", "20", "21
" -->
        <Active_Processor_Cores>All</Active_Processor_Cores>

        <!-- Execute Disable Bit -->
        <!-- Description: When disabled, forces the XD feature flag to always return 0. -->
        <!-- Possible Values: "Disabled", "Enabled" -->
        <Execute_Disable_Bit>Enabled</Execute_Disable_Bit>

        <!-- Hardware Prefetcher -->
        <!-- Description: = MLC Streamer Prefetcher (MSR 1A4h Bit[0]) -->
        <!-- Possible Values: "Enabled", "Disabled" -->
        <Hardware_Prefetcher>Enabled</Hardware_Prefetcher>

        <!-- Adjacent Cache Prefetch -->
        <!-- Description: = MLC Spatial Prefetcher (MSR 1A4h Bit[1]) -->
        <!-- Possible Values: "Enabled", "Disabled" -->
        <Adjacent_Cache_Prefetch>Enabled</Adjacent_Cache_Prefetch>

        <!-- DCU Streamer Prefetcher -->
        <!-- Description: DCU streamer prefetcher is an L1 data cache prefetcher (MSR 1A4h [2]). -->
        <!-- Possible Values: "Enabled", "Disabled" -->
        <DCU_Streamer_Prefetcher>Enabled</DCU_Streamer_Prefetcher>

        <!-- DCU IP Prefetcher -->

Products to which Article Applies

Oracle Linux

Additional References

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E72066_01/html/E72072/glscq.html

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