How to pull high-level server information from Mysql
This info comes from server system variables. Look in the Administration secion -&gt; Status and System Variables:

Here I filtered for all variables that contain version. In plain SQL you would use this query: select @@version, select @@innodb_version etc.
Of course, some of the info is just what you specified when you defined the connection (like socket, ip, port, config file etc.).