Serial number with a command line

[Olivier Decorse]

How can i know the serial number of an HP-9000 - HP-UX 10.20, only with a command line ?

Thank's.
Olivier.

[Victor BERRIDGE]

The only number you can get by command line is the spu:
uname -i


The real serial-number is on the machine...

Best regards
Victor

[Dan Hetzel]

Bonjour Olivier,

There isn't unfortunately any magical command to retrieve the serial number.

I was looking for the same magic stuff a while ago because I was too lazy to inventory the systems manually (some were remote...)

It's written on the system and doesn't need much effort to retrieve. ;-)

Best regards,

Dan

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi
Once you have the serial number create a file with all the relevent serial numbers in it and save it on the server.
Then for future inventry of all sestems just call up this file from each server.
E.G.
____________cut here______________
Server name -
Serial number <123456656>
Other bits
Serial of that bit
___________cut here_______________

HTH

Paula

[Curtis Larson]

yes the only way to get the serial number is from having put that information somewhere on the system, (echo your_serial_number > /etc/local/serialnumber. then creating a command such as serialnumber which will cat /etc/local/serialnumber.)

Now if you have predictive support set up (part of setting it is telling it what the system's serial number is), you can get the serial number out of the file where predictive has stored it.

But, someone has to enter the serial before this will work.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

The "software" serial number can be obtained with 'uname -i'. To obtain the hardware (processor) serial number, you open the door of the server on (at least) D- and K-class servers.

You can edit (or create) /var/opt/ignite/local/manifest/ manifest.seed adding a line that like:

"SERIAL ".

Then, whenever you do a 'print_manifest' you will report this information too.

...JRF...

[rajsri]

If you would have configured predictive tool , you can use /opt/pred/bin/psconfig command to get the serial no .

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Oliver,

No easy way out of this hole. Walk down to the server and take down the serial no. that is the ovly choice, until you have CCTV connected in the server room. doubt even that will help.

Thanks

[Olivier Decorse]

points assigned : no solution under 10.20.
On 11.00, of course, stm (select system/info/il) is the good way !

Olivier.