how to get hardware info

[Victor Salvador]

I am a PERL programer. I would like to know how can I get some information from my server's hardware:

HardDisk Serial Number
operation System Serial Number

or an another key feature that supposed to be unique for each equipment.

I pretend other users run my software(PERL Program) in another equipment that I don't let my approval.

[Rick Garland]

Some HW values you are seeking are not present in the OS. Example, the HW serial number is listed on the exterior of the system. If there is a 'door', you will find the serial number on the inside of the door.

Something that was done previously (in another life) is to create a file called /.serial that contained the HW serial numbers.

[Stefan Farrelly · Accepted solution]

I dont know any way to obtain the serial number of an HP server online. Its only printed on the external box.

To obtain the serial number of a disk drive you could use cstm to do this via the diagnostic software although it may be difficult to obtain. If theyre EMC disks you can use the inq or syminq (emc commands) to obtain unique serial numbers on their disks.

The normal method for licensing/uniqueness on an HP server is to use either;
uname -i or
/opt/ifor/ls/bin/i4target

Licensed application software usually uses one of these two.

[Cheryl Griffin]

Victor,

The HardDisk Serial Number and operation System Serial Number are not recorded within the operating system. The hardware serial number is located on the unit itself. The operating system, if you mean media numbers are located on the cd's itself.

You might find all these unique numbers documented on your Sales Order.

Best Wishes,
Cheryl

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

For the serial number for the os, use:

uname -i

for disks, I suspect you would have to make do with what diskinfo can provide:

for i in `ioscan -fnC disk |grep rdsk | awk '{ print $2 }'`
do
diskinfo -v $i
done

[melvyn burnard]

a disk serialnumber could be obtained by using the STM diagnostic utilities, but whether you could get the info using your scripts I am unsure.

[Michael Lampi]

You can use scsi_info to obtain whatever information the device manufacturer placed in the device. This typically includes the serial number of the device.

scsi_info and its source code can be obtained from ftp://ftp.mdlcorp.com/scsiinfo/hp-ux10/

[Anthony Goonetilleke]

There are a couple of good little programs you can use to pipe the output into a perl array.
Try the following-

you need to install ignite-UX which is free and there is a file called
/opt/ignite/bin/print_manifest
this has a lot of good stuff.

Also have a look at diskinfo this will give you a bit of information on the disk.