Overview
This article describes how to view the system model of an ECS instance.
Detail
Alibaba Cloud reminds you that:
- Before you perform operations that may cause risks, such as modifying instance configurations or data, we recommend that you check the disaster recovery and fault tolerance capabilities of the instances to ensure data security.
- You can modify the configurations and data of instances including but not limited to Elastic Compute Service (ECS) and Relational Database Service (RDS) instances. Before the modification, we recommend that you create snapshots or enable RDS log backup.
- If you have authorized or submitted sensitive information such as the logon account and password in the Alibaba Cloud Management Console, we recommend that you modify such information in a timely manner.
Select the following steps based on the on-site conditions.
Applies to Windows systems
- Log on to a Windows instance. For more information, seeconnect to a Windows instance by using a management terminal.
- Open the command prompt, enter cmd, and click OK to open the command line tool.
- Run the following command to enter PowerShell mode:
powershell
The following command output is returned. - Run the following command to view the system model.
Get-CimInstance Win32_ComputerSystemProduct | fl IdentifyingNumber
For Linux
- Log on to a Linux instance. For more information about how to log on to a Linux instance, seeconnect to a Linux instance by using a management terminal.
- Run the following command to view the system model.
dmidecode | grep UUID
Application scope
- Alibaba Cloud ECS
- Simple Application Server