topic Re: System Serial Number in Operating System - HP-UX

System Serial Number

Rgomes — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:58:33 GMT

Hi,

Is there any HPUX command to check system's serial number from OS( 11i)?

thanks all

richard

Re: System Serial Number

Robert-Jan Goossens — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:39:43 GMT

Hi Richard,

Have You got Ignite installed ?

# /opt/ignite/bin/print_manifest | grep "Serial number:"

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.

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Re: System Serial Number

KCS_1 — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:41:06 GMT

hi,

you can find out your system's serial number,

# /var/opt/ignite/bin/print_manifest

and

# cstm
cstm > sel all
cstm > info
cstm > infolog

have a good day!

Re: System Serial Number

KCS_1 — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:46:47 GMT

haha..i wrote misspells..

#/opt/ignite/bin/print_manifest

is correct path.

Re: System Serial Number

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 14:31:16 GMT

Hi Richard,

Use 'cstm' to get the Serial number if you have the latest hardware like L, N, RPs, SDs etc.,

cstm
>map
>sel dev 1
>info
>infolog

If the system is old hardware like K, then you don't have much choice and you have to go and physically look at the server.

print_manifest can print the Serial Number only if you didn't re-install the factory installed OS. It basically reads the serial number from a seed file populated by HP during the OS install.

-Sri

Re: System Serial Number

Bill Hassell — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 14:48:04 GMT

Reading the serial number electronically only works with very new machines (the last year or two). The vast majority of HP 9000 computers (workstations and servers) have no method to obtain the serial number in HP-UX or processor ROMs. The ID number reported by uname -i is an encrypted portion of the serial number and processor information, used only for unique licensing.

As mentioned, the online diagnostics (cstm, mstm, xstm) can obtain the information--if they have been installed. They are located on your Support Plus CDROM in case you need to (re)install them. Or you can download the SupportPlus packages from itrc.hp.com

Re: System Serial Number

Rgomes — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 05:55:52 GMT

Hi All,

Thank you veey much for those reply. This will help me a lot.

Thanks again

Richard

Re: System Serial Number

KCS_1 — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 05:59:04 GMT

Richard!! You're welcome :)