AIX::SysInfo is a Perl module for retrieving information about an AIX pSeries system You can install it using the usual Perl fashion: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install The documentation is in the module file. Once you install the file, you can read it with perldoc. perldoc AIX::SysInfo If you want to read it before you install it, you can use perldoc directly on the module file. perldoc SysInfo.pm VERSION 1.1.1 - some bug fixes, added several more keys 1.1 - rewrite (released on Tue Jun 16 16:39:00 CDT 2009) 1.0 (released 2000-07-03) AUTHOR Sandor W. Sklar Sergey Leonovich sleonov@cpan.org COPYRIGHT/LICENSE Copyright (c) 2001, Sandor W. Sklar. Copyright (c) 2009, Sergey Leonovich This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed, and/or modified under the terms of the Perl Artistic License.