How to tell if client is 32bit or 64bit?

Usage and Config
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(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)

Looking for a cross platform way to determine if a client is 32 bit or 64 bit. Is there a bit o relevance that does this out of box?

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(imported comment written by jessewk)

You mean the host operating system?

Q: x64 of operating system

A: False

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Will that work on linux and solaris?

For windows, we had been using:

(not exists (value of variable “PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE” of environment) whose (it as string as lowercase contains “64”).

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(imported comment written by jessewk)

‘x64 of operating system’ will work on Windows 6.0 and Mac.

‘ia64 of operating system’ will work on Windows 7.0 . (True if Itanium)

‘architecture of operating system’ will work on Linux 4.1, HP-Unix 4.1, Mac 6.0, AIX 4.1, Solaris 4.1 . You need to match this result against a known string. For example in our redhat content we use 'architecture of operating system = “x86_64”. The exact string to check for depends on the specific flavor of operating system.

Note I pulled all the version compatibility information from the inspector search utility: http://support.bigfix.com/inspectorsearch/inspector_search.html

Jesse

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Is there any kind of initiative to make inspectors OS agnostic? Seems like a standard way to query for things would be a great selling point.

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(imported comment written by jessewk)

Generally wherever we can we will make the inspectors cross platform, but we are limited by the APIs made available by the OS vendor.

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

I guess I am not following. The OS vendor supplies the API’s but wouldn’t the inspector isolate the user from the API? Couldn’t an inspector called, for instance, ‘architecture of operating system’ provide a value of x86, x64, i64 or a64 by querying those api’s and manipulating the data?

Sorry if I am not understanding, but it just seems like all the information is there, it’s just a matter of consistent presentation. Writing queries would be a world easier if properites were kept common.