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Getting serial number from command line

Jonathan Wegner — Tue, 02 Oct 2001 16:03:53 GMT

Does anyone know of a command which will give the diskdrive serial number. I know that diskinfo will give the manufacturer and disksize. I'm looking to get a serial number w/o having to shut the machine down and physically remove the drive.

I'm running HP-UX 10.20 on TAC4's.

Thanks,
Jonathan

Re: Getting serial number from command line

Thierry Poels_1 — Tue, 02 Oct 2001 16:20:47 GMT

hi,

run Information on the disks from within stm. This will show the required info.
(if not installed, you can install it from the Support Plus CD)

good luck,
Thierry.

Re: Getting serial number from command line

Richard Darling — Tue, 02 Oct 2001 16:31:54 GMT

Jonathan,
Earlier this year I got this little gem from the forum, and it will give you exactly what you need:
...find all the disks serial numbers:

Create a file called /tmp/disk.stm with contents...

SelClass type "Disk" qualifier "All"
info;wait
il
done
quit
ok

Call this file at command prompt with cstm command

# cstm -f /tmp/disk.stm

Re: Getting serial number from command line

Jonathan Wegner — Tue, 02 Oct 2001 18:56:05 GMT

Thank you both for your responses. Unfortunately neither answer works.

I don't understand "run Information on the disk from within stm". Also, I do not have a cd-rom of HP-UX. I have only 4mm tapes with supplemental and support.

As to the second reply, the command cstm is unknown on my system. I have done only the basic install of HP-UX 10.20 with patches required for the software I'm running. I have not installed anything from the supplemental or support tapes.

Thanks again for the help.
Jonathan

Re: Getting serial number from command line

Bernie Vande Griend — Tue, 02 Oct 2001 19:00:54 GMT

Jonathon,
Sounds like you need to install the Diagnostics utilities first. They can be found on the SupportPlus CD or from ITRC. STM (cstm) is one of the diagnostic tools. IMO they should be installed on every HP-UX system you administer.

Re: Getting serial number from command line

Richard Darling — Tue, 02 Oct 2001 19:08:16 GMT

Jonathan,
The cstm command is the only way I know to get the serial number without opening the box. You should install the utilities...
Richard Darling

Re: Getting serial number from command line

Mladen Despic — Tue, 02 Oct 2001 19:16:05 GMT

Jonathan,

In order to run stm or cstm you need to install STM. This software, which you can get from HP, used to be called Online Diagnostics (I think), but STM stands for Support Tools Manger.

Apparently, you can now download STM over the web.
Here is a link:

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/otsearch/getfile?id=/hpux/onlinedocs/diag/st/st_web.htm&searchterms=Support%7cTools%7cManager&queryid=20011002-131708

Re: Getting serial number from command line

linuxfan — Tue, 02 Oct 2001 19:35:45 GMT

Hi Jonathan,

You could try EMC's inquiry utility. You can get that from

For 10.20
ftp://ftp.emc.com/pub/symm3000/inquiry/v4.3.1.0/inq.hpux1020

For 11.0
ftp://ftp.emc.com/pub/symm3000/inquiry/v4.3.1.0/inq.hpux1100

Has worked like a charm for me

-HTH
Ramesh

Re: Getting serial number from command line

G. Vrijhoeven — Wed, 03 Oct 2001 14:04:41 GMT

Jonathan,

Try the print_manifest | more command.

hope this will work.

Gideon

Re: Getting serial number from command line

Richard Darling — Wed, 03 Oct 2001 16:53:16 GMT

Jonathan,
If people take the time to answer you, please take a moment to assign points. Thanks...
Richard Darling

Re: Getting serial number from command line

Hamdy Al-Sebaey — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:52:38 GMT

Jonathan,

Almost I agree with most of our collega's,
firstly U need to install the software from the CD support plus,then just on your promt type in # xstm or mstm or stm.
U can also try print_manifest & pipe this to /tmp.
Thanks,
Hamdy

Re: Getting serial number from command line

Hamdy Al-Sebaey — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:05:21 GMT

Jonathan,

I would like to say that xstm is for hp-ux 11.

Regards,
Hamdy

Re: Getting serial number from command line

harry d brown jr — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:27:20 GMT

I've been running xstm on 10.20 machines for years (b4 there was hpux 11.x).

Re: Getting serial number from command line

Hamdy Al-Sebaey — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:36:11 GMT

hi Harry,

Thanks, but what I mean is just the graphical interface of xstm

Regards,
Hamdy

Re: Getting serial number from command line

harry d brown jr — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:41:30 GMT

Yes, I have used the graphical interface to xstm, as opposed to the garbage stm.

Re: Getting serial number from command line

Jonathan Wegner — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 15:03:49 GMT

Thank you for all the replies. I downloaded and installed stm and am able to use the cstm command with the disk.stm file.

Thanks again,
Jonathan