topic serial number for alpha servers with OPENVMS in Operating System - OpenVMS

serial number for alpha servers with OPENVMS

belkacem — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:33:52 GMT

hello team,

i have two servers with OPENVMS installed , 7.3.2, so i need to know the serial numbers of them,

how i can do it throught the CLI, witch command i tape to get serial numbers ?

thank you

Re: serial number for alpha servers with OPENVMS

Duncan Morris — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:50:09 GMT

Hi,

try

$ write sys$output f$getsyi("serial_number")

See also the thread:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1083487

Duncan

Re: serial number for alpha servers with OPENVMS

Robert Gezelter — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:51:44 GMT

belkacem,

Welcome to the ITRC OpenVMS Forum!

The best (well-phrased) answer to this question is "Ask the Wizard" entry 8096 at http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/wiz_8096.html

Please note the IF IT HAS BEEN CONFIGURED comment in answer, as well as the note to "check the label on the actual hardware".

If is has not been set, the response may very well be a blank string.

I hope that this is helpful.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

Re: serial number for alpha servers with OPENVMS

belkacem — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:00:47 GMT

thanks a lot

Re: serial number for alpha servers with OPENVMS

Hoff — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:47:38 GMT

No Alpha, No VAX and No Itanium has a reliable serial number. Period.

If you'd like to change the serial number returned by the sequence described in this thread, that's easily feasible too.

If this is software licensing, forget it. Use LMF. Do the minimal licensing you need to do, and get back to working on the application.

The official serial number is printed on the sticker that's usually on the box somewhere near the power connection.

Re: serial number for alpha servers with OPENVMS

marsh_1 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:39:02 GMT

backing up up hoff's comment , i've received both reconditioned and fresh from the factory alpha servers with all sorts of entries for the serial number - people/place names etc - best look on the box.