More on the "sudo" Command
"sudo" is a command that runs on Linux, Unix, and Mac OS computers that allows you to run commands with administrator privileges.
As noted in
Product requirements, running Linux/Unix/Mac OS discovery
requires that you have
sudo
credentials. This is because the discovery process
runs the following commands using
sudo
in order to collect information on Linux
distributions:
dmidecode
: Retrieves hardware inventory information from the BIOS.lshw
: Lists hardware information.launchctl
: Mac OS: Lists running services.