topic Re: disk serial numbers in Disk Enclosures

disk serial numbers

Richard Mertz — Mon, 14 Oct 2002 16:16:43 GMT

I just got in two used FC10 arrays and need the serial numbers to put on my support contract. Anyone got a way to get them from the system or do I have to pull each disk and write down its number the old fashioned way.

Richard

Re: disk serial numbers

Ted Ellis_2 — Mon, 14 Oct 2002 16:23:41 GMT

will the FC10 register under the amdsp command? I use that for our FC60

amdsp -i will list the arrays
amdsp -a will list all of the components including serial numbers.

Since the FC10 works like JBOD(?), this may not fly.

you can also try mstm at the command ine... you should be able to run information on each disk found and it will return info that includes serial numbers

Ted

Re: disk serial numbers

Pete Randall — Mon, 14 Oct 2002 16:24:58 GMT

Richard,

I don't bother listing individual disk serial numbers - my contract just shows "A5294AZ#210 10x18.2GB 10K RPM Ultra@ SCSI Drives". It's not necessary to list each one.

Pete

Re: disk serial numbers

Richard Mertz — Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:28:19 GMT

Unfortunately, neither command worked for me to retrieve serial numbers. I have been told by HP that I need to have the serial numbers on our support agreement--they are re-marketed. I guess I'll have to do it the old fashioned way :)

Richard

Re: disk serial numbers

Ted Ellis_2 — Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:58:13 GMT

sorry... we have the Disk System 2405, which to my knowledge is the replacement for the FC10. I use it in JBOD configuration, and mstm did pull up the disk serial numbers

# mstm

hit "o" to acknowledge OK when you get the start info
scroll down and you should see an entry for each disk in the system. Spacebar will highlight what ever you want... just make sure you only highlight one at a time

hit tab to bounce up to the menu bar and under tools select information and then select run

that would return all details on the disk including serial number.

humble apologies if this fails, or you have already done the yank and check method :-)

Ted

Re: disk serial numbers

Jeff Schussele — Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:07:57 GMT

Hi Richard,

You might try the sysinfo utility. It'll return disk S/Ns from other JBOD style enclosures.

Here's what it reurned from a K-class that had internal, Jamaica & XP connections.
I'll also attach it as a txt file in case the format gets whacked.

PHYSICAL DISK DATA
==================
Size
Volume Name LU# H/W Path Vendor / Model (MB) B
-------------- --- ---------------- -------------------- ------ -
/dev/dsk/c0t5d0 0 10/0.5.0 SEAGATE ST39173WC 8678 N
/dev/dsk/c0t6d0 1 10/0.6.0 SEAGATE ST39173WC 8678 Y
/dev/dsk/c1t4d0 2 10/8.4.0 SEAGATE ST39173WC 8683 N
/dev/dsk/c1t5d0 3 10/8.5.0 SEAGATE ST39173WC 8683 N
/dev/dsk/c1t6d0 4 10/8.6.0 SEAGATE ST39173WC 8683 Y
/dev/dsk/c2t2d0 5 10/12/5.2.0 TOSHIBA CD-ROM 0 N
/dev/dsk/c4t0d0 6 8/8.8.0.255.0.0.0 HITACHI OPEN-9 7042 N
/dev/dsk/c4t0d1 7 8/8.8.0.255.0.0.1 HITACHI OPEN-9*3 21127 N
/dev/dsk/c4t0d3 9 8/8.8.0.255.0.0.3 HITACHI OPEN-9*2 14085 N
/dev/dsk/c5t0d2 12 8/12.8.0.255.0.0.2 HITACHI OPEN-9*3 21127 N
======
Total (MB) 106786
B = Bootable Disk
n/v = Not Valid, n/f = Not Found

Rev
HW Path Level Serial Number LUN
--------------------- ----- --------------------- ----
8/8.8.0.255.0.0.0 5246 31004 0
8/8.8.0.255.0.0.1 5246 31004 1
8/8.8.0.255.0.0.2 5246 31004 2
8/8.8.0.255.0.0.3 5246 31004 3
8/12.8.0.255.0.0.0 5246 31004 0
8/12.8.0.255.0.0.1 5246 31004 1
8/12.8.0.255.0.0.2 5246 31004 2
8/12.8.0.255.0.0.3 5246 31004 3
10/0.5.0 HP05 LM88801200007909HPR4 0
10/0.6.0 HP05 LM84113000007908HN7X 0
10/8.4.0 HP11 LME8334600007933HSLY 0
10/8.5.0 HP05 LMC3530300007923HKDH 0
10/8.6.0 HP05 LMC1643300007923H9WL 0
10/12/5.2.0 1557 N/A 0

As you can see, it gives the S/Ns for the internal as well as Jamaica drives. But the S/N reported from the XP is rather cryptic.
But hey, it worth a try.

Rgds,
Jeff

Re: disk serial numbers

Vincent Farrugia — Tue, 15 Oct 2002 06:06:20 GMT

Hello,

You can get them from mstm. Type mstm on your command prompt; for each disk, Options - Information - Run and you should get their serial number this way.

HTH,
Vince

Re: disk serial numbers

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Oct 2002 09:03:58 GMT

most of the system info collectors for hpux will collect the stm info and provide the serial numbers this way (grep -i "serial" infofile).

you may want to have a look at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cfg2html/
(the info collector that I'm using)

in case you're dealing with stm a lot you may want to give cstm a try:
cstm>help
is a good starter
(map, sel-select, info, il-information log
are the essential commands).

Re: disk serial numbers

Richard Mertz — Mon, 25 Nov 2002 15:24:31 GMT

Thanks guys--I finally did it by hand--really just a 10 minute job.

Richard

Re: disk serial numbers

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Mon, 25 Nov 2002 15:27:37 GMT

diskinfo /dev/...
should work in future..
Later,
Bill