topic Re: serial number in Operating System - HP-UX

serial number

Arunkumar_3 — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:10:00 GMT

Can any one tell me how to get the HPUX 9000/800 system serial no? I need a command which will retrive the serial no.

thanks in advance
-Arun

Re: serial number

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:18:46 GMT

Hi Arun,

Have you got ignite installed ?

# print_manifest | grep "Serial number:"

if not you can try,

# getconf CS_MACHINE_SERIAL

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.

Re: serial number

S.K. Chan — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:20:11 GMT

For the newer server you can use either STM or the print_manifest command.
# echo "sel path system;info;wait;infolog
>view
>done
>"|cstm > info
# cat info

OR

# /opt/ignite/bin/print_manifest

Re: serial number

Wilfred Chau_1 — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:22:52 GMT

mstm -> highlight "system" -> information -> information log

Re: serial number

Arunkumar_3 — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:46:55 GMT

I have a factory pre-installed hp ux box. I haven't installed anything on that.
I tried the commands suggested, but it's not returning the serial no. My swlist not showing any bundle etc., related to ignite-ux

Re: serial number

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:05:25 GMT

Hi Arun,

If above answers do not give any results, go for the old fashioned way, look at the backside of the server. You will find a S/N number.

Robert-Jan.

Re: serial number

Michael Tully — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:06:30 GMT

ignite and some of the other tools are part of software called diagnostics. You should load these as part of your OS install. Obviously you don't have these loaded as yet. Until you do, depending on the model of the system, the serial number should be located on the back of the unit, or behind the front panel.

Here is a good posting on installing you OS and other software. It is a very good guide.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x4499e7e60861d511abcd0090277a778c,00.htm

Re: serial number

Arunkumar_3 — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:08:36 GMT

Hi Robert-Jan,

I want to retrive the serial and use it in one of my programs, I can't hardcode it.
Is there any otherways to install ignite on this box?

-Arun

Re: serial number

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:08:48 GMT

Hi Arun,

What is the hardware you have. On the latest hardware like L, N etc., you can get it from cstm.

On the other servers, you will have to physically look at the system to get the serial number.

If you didn't overwrite the factory built OS, then print_manifest can retrieve the Serial number from the seed file already populated by HP.

-Sri

Re: serial number

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:16:46 GMT

Hi Arun,

Ignite is a free hp software product you can download it on next page.

http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/download.html

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.

Re: serial number

Arunkumar_3 — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 00:20:41 GMT

S.K.Chan,
your command is working on 11i but on 11.0 it is returning cstm not found.

-Arun

Re: serial number

Michael Tully — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 00:32:21 GMT

On your 11.0 system the full diagnostics don't seem to be loaded. 'cstm' is part of the diagnostics set. Re-load all of the diagnostics and 'cstm' will be available to you.

Re: serial number

Frank Slootweg — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:08:58 GMT

"the serial number" does not really exist, because there are several serial numbers.

If you just need *a* 'serial number' and, as you mentioned, the proposed solutions do not work for you, then you may just use the serial number returned by "uname -i". For details, see the uname(1) ("man uname") and uname(2) ("man 2 uname") manual pages.

If you need more help, then please let us know *which* 'serial number' you want/need and why.

Re: serial number

doug hosking — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:58:51 GMT

The previously mentioned getconf is
one way to read it. If you want to read it from C you can do something like the following. This only works on newer systems. (In this case, an rx2600). I'm still trying to find out exactly which models support this method. So far it appears to be a pretty small percentage of the total installed base of PA systems.

As Frank(?) mentioned, there are really several serial numbers. The one returned by uname is in a different format.

$ cat ser.c
#include

main()
{
char buf[81];
if (confstr(_CS_MACHINE_SERIAL, buf, sizeof(buf)) <= 0) {
perror("confstr");
exit(1);
}
printf(" machine serial number = %s\n", buf);
exit(0);
}

$ cc ser.c

$ ./a.out
machine serial number = US25060964

$

Re: serial number

Michael R. Monteith — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 12:21:49 GMT

Doug,
I know it doesn't work on L-Class. I got a JAG called in for it. Getconf and conftstr both don't work. But I know the serial number is there because HP has a sysinfo product that has a binary supplied with it that does work on the L-Class.

I also ended up finding another way to get the serial number:

echo "sel path system\ninfolog\nexit"|cstm|grep "System Serial Number"

Michael

Re: serial number

Arunkumar_3 — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:53:04 GMT

thanks