topic Re: howto fine year fabrication ? in Operating System - HP-UX

howto fine year fabrication ?

mobidyc — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:24:16 GMT

Hello,

do you know how i could find the year fabrication of an HPUX server ?
maybe it's encrypted in the serial number ?

regards,
Cedrick Gailard

Re: howto fine year fabrication ?

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:28:24 GMT

Shalom Cedrick.

There is a stamp on the actual system that says when it was fabricated(built).

You should use the eyeball version 1.0 method of obtaining this information.

SEP

Re: howto fine year fabrication ?

Mike Shilladay — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 04:59:45 GMT

Hi,

You can get a date stamp if you go into STM, highlight system, tab to tools, select info, select run.

Mike.

Re: howto fine year fabrication ?

Mike Shilladay — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:38:35 GMT

Sorry, the string are looking for in the report is "Engineering Date Code"

Mike.

Re: howto fine year fabrication ?

mobidyc — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:00:51 GMT

Big thanks for your answers,
it rocks ;)

is it documented somewhere ?

Regards,
Cedrick Gaillard

Re: howto fine year fabrication ?

Mike Shilladay — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 05:01:08 GMT

Hi Cedric,

There is no "hard documentation" for this fact, it came to me from an HP engineer. You used to be able to get the information from the serial number, but when the serial numbers changed format in the late ninties, that useful tip disappeared.

Just for the record, that Engineering Date Code doesn't appear on Integrity servers as I have just checked on our rx2620.
I will see if they is some documentatary evidence for you if you are interested, though that may not be easily forthcoming.

Mike.