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

Serial Number

Warren griggs — Mon, 04 Mar 2002 10:29:18 GMT

Hi,

Does anybody know of a command that you can run to find the system serial number?

Thanks in advance,

Colin.

Re: Serial Number

Peter Kloetgen — Mon, 04 Mar 2002 10:31:49 GMT

Hi,

try to run the command:

uname -a

which shows some information about operating system, license and hardware code number.

Allways stay on the bright side of life!

Peter

Re: Serial Number

Corthouts Carlo — Mon, 04 Mar 2002 10:38:25 GMT

Hi,

If you have a recent system and a quite recent version of STM you can find the system serial number when requesting system information.

Regards

Re: Serial Number

Warren griggs — Mon, 04 Mar 2002 10:38:31 GMT

Peter,

Thanks for the quick response.

However uname -a does not supply the physical serial number for the machine.

I am able to test this on servers I have physically on-site but am unable to find out the numbers for servers off-site.

Regards,

Colin.

Re: Serial Number

Robin Wakefield — Mon, 04 Mar 2002 10:50:47 GMT

Hi Colin,

Please refer to:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xd884b47b9a27d6118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

Rgds, Robin.

Re: Serial Number

Warren griggs — Mon, 04 Mar 2002 10:51:02 GMT

Thanks Carlo,

This does work for our newer servers but not for our older.

Any other ideas?

Regards,

Colin.

Re: Serial Number

K.Vijayaragavan. — Mon, 04 Mar 2002 10:51:46 GMT

As i know,

Unless you have kept it ready in some file (manually) , there is now way you can get the serial numbers by issuing command.
You may have to ask some one at off site to look at the serial numbers physically.

-K.Vijay

Re: Serial Number

Corthouts Carlo — Mon, 04 Mar 2002 10:58:09 GMT

Hello,

For your older systems it is not possible to get the system serial number with some command.

You will have to keep a record for the older systems or have it mention in some file on the system so you can check that file afterwards for the serial number.

Regards,

Wherever I lay my hat is my home......but first I will need to get that hat.

Re: Serial Number

Holger Knoppik — Mon, 04 Mar 2002 13:27:06 GMT

Hi Colin !
Based on Carlo's first post, you can try it with the following script:
---snip------------------
#!/bin/sh
#
#
#set -x

cstm </dev/null 2>&1
scl type system
info
wait
infolog
saveas
/var/conf/sys.out
done
quit
ok
!
---snip------------------

Then grep 'System Serial' /var/conf/sys.out | awk '{print $4}'

Hope this helps
RGDS, Holger

Re: Serial Number

harry d brown jr — Mon, 04 Mar 2002 14:01:50 GMT

Colin,

The serial number of the chassis is not obtainable from older systems like G/H/I's and K's. And although you can get a serial number for some new systems via the OS, it's not always accurate (especially if the mother board is replaced), therefore it's best to keep those numbers manually.

live free or die
harry

Re: Serial Number

Mark Greene_1 — Mon, 04 Mar 2002 14:06:50 GMT

depending on the class of your system, you can run this: /opt/ignite/bin/print_manifest

alternatively, if you have the orginal packing slip that came with the system or a copy of the invoice from your hardware var, the system serial number should be on either of those. You can also trying asking the var if you don't have either of those documents.

HTH
mark

Re: Serial Number

SHABU KHAN — Mon, 04 Mar 2002 20:12:18 GMT

Hi,

As already mentioned ... if you have ignite loaded then you could try the print_manifest command which gives complete system information and in some cases the serial number also..

print_manifest | grep -i serial

print_manifest actually grabs information from the manifest.info file under /opt/ignite/data/tutorial (standard installation) and formats it and prints on stdout...

-Shabu