topic Re: BIOS/Machine serial number in Operating System - HP-UX

BIOS/Machine serial number

Viney Kumar — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:18:13 GMT

HI All

Hi

Please explain the meaning of below commands

echo "selclass qualifier CPU;info;wait;infolog"| /usr/sbin/cstm 2>/dev/null | sed -n -e '/Board Info!/,/Artwork Rev/p' 2>/dev/null

can we get the BIOS /Machine serial number from it.

Im already aware about print_manifest and getconf MACHINE_SERIAL

Regards

Re: BIOS/Machine serial number

Kranti Mahmud — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:39:06 GMT

Hi Vinay,

Read the below links:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=91018

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1378825

Rgds-Kranti

Re: BIOS/Machine serial number

sujit kumar singh — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:50:27 GMT

Hi The cstm command does show the System Serial Number.

you can use as a superuser

#cstm
cstm>map sel all
cstm>info;wait
cstm>infolog

regards
sujit

Re: BIOS/Machine serial number

R.K. # — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:18:39 GMT

Hi Viney,

Two ways:

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

Another:
# getconf MACHINE_SERIAL

Re: BIOS/Machine serial number

Torsten. — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:05:16 GMT

I think your command greps for component serial numbers, but nor system serial.
This is kind of useless I guess.

Try to select the system item in stm or use "machinfo".

Re: BIOS/Machine serial number

Bill Hassell — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:51:46 GMT

The example is very specific for board information. If the serial number is what you need, you can use this command:

echo "selclass qualifier system;info;wait;infolog" | cstm | grep -i serial

Since you did not specify which of the several dozen (and very different) models that you have, there may not be a serial number electronically readable. As far as a BIOS revision, HP-UX boxes are much more complex than a simple PC so there is no single value for firmware. There are board firmware values, management port firmware values, even backplanes and power control values. Leave off the grep from the above command and you can see the various subsystems and numbers.