topic Machine serial number in Operating System - HP-UX

Machine serial number

Peter Gillis — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:12:54 GMT

Is there a simple way/command to findout the serial number of your HP-UX machine when you are not in the same physical location as the actual box.(apart from having it written down somewhere handy for those special occassions!!)

Re: Machine serial number

S.K. Chan — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:19:49 GMT

Depends on your server model .. check this thread..

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x6a0a6d96588ad4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

Re: Machine serial number

Michael Tully — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:23:35 GMT

Hi,

There are four items to mention:

1.
# echo "sel path system;info;wait;infolog
>view
>done
>"|cstm > info
# cat info

2. From the original manifest file if you have
ignite:

/var/opt/ignite/local/manifest/manifest.orig

3. cstm
cstm >Map
cstm > SelAll
cstm>Information
cstm>Infolog
Press space bar till you get save as file option ... save it in file
cstm> exit

4. If a CPU has been changed you may not
be able to retrieve it.

HTH
-Michael

Re: Machine serial number

Peter Gillis — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:30:34 GMT

Hi Michael
Thanks for the info. Item 3 was the hit - unfortuneately the serial number field gave me an answer of "N/A". At least now I can find out how to get the value in there and make use of cstm in this way.
Thanks,
Maria.

Re: Machine serial number

Peter Gillis — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:43:17 GMT

Hello S.K Chan,
Thanks for the pointer. Found an item relating to the manifest.seed file that I am going to attempt to use in readiness for the next make_recovery tape run. We run older models here D210, D220 and D390.

Thanks
Maria.

Re: Machine serial number

harry d brown jr — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:44:16 GMT

Maria,

unless you have a perfect world, you can not guarantee that any system command will return the system serial number. If the system board get's replaced, guess what, the "system" serial number get's changed! The only way to be absolutely sure, is to check the serial number on the chassis, which means you have to have physical access!

live free or die
harry