topic Re: Diff between the systems in Operating System - HP-UX

Diff between the systems

Kaps_2 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:34:15 GMT

Hello All,

Is there anything different in the OS levels of these machines?Why one is showing unknown and the other as tannus?

HP-UX unknown B.11.23 U ia64 0059353916 unlimited-user license –machine.

HP-UX tannus B.11.23 U ia64 2408175243 unlimited-user license

What do the numbers signify?

Re: Diff between the systems

Pete Randall — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:38:57 GMT

It says "unknown" because the nodename is not set. You can set it with uname -S or you can use /sbin/set_parms hostname.

For OS level differences you would be better off looking at swlist output.

Pete

Re: Diff between the systems

Kaps_2 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:43:33 GMT

pete,

thanks for the quick reply, Both systems have B.11.23 OS level then why the numbers differs from each other?

Re: Diff between the systems

Pete Randall — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:51:59 GMT

You could spend a little time with the uname man page.

The numbers (0059353916 and 2408175243, presumably) are the machine ID, which is unique to each machine, similar to a serial number.

Pete

Re: Diff between the systems

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:52:30 GMT

Hi Kaps,

The number is the UID of the system.

# uname -i

from the man uname
Print the machine identification number

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: Diff between the systems

Avinash20 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:00:27 GMT

You could get the same with

# uname -i

-i Display the machine identification number (or the
node name, if the machine identification number
cannot be determined). This option cannot display
the unique machine identification number.

Re: Diff between the systems

Kaps_2 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:02:42 GMT

thanks pete & rob for the quick reply.

Re: Diff between the systems

Kaps_2 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:03:54 GMT

Thanks