id number

[Jon Steele]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone knows that all of HP machines ID numbers always start with a zero?I have a customer and he says their legacy software does not like the machines that have an ID number that starts with a zero.I have tried an RX460 and an RX2600 and they start with an zero.I find the ID number by typing in machinfo
please let me know if there is a machine out there that does not start with a zero .
Thank you
Jon

[Sameer_Nirmal]

Can you post the machinfo and uname -a
output?

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Hi Jon,

No, you can also use the uname -i command to find the id number.

RX2600 11iv2
# machinfo | grep idnumber
idnumber = 1928826293
# uname -i
1928826293

BL860c 11iv3
# uname -i
3426292962

RP2470 11iv1
# uname -i
1839940656

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Jon Steele]

I can see my ID number ,my problem is I need to find a type of machine that the ID number does not start with a zero.On 2 different machines one has ID number of 0092028753 and the other one has 0288159798.My question is ,is there a type of machine out there that has an ID number that does NOT start with a zero?

Thanks
Jon

[Bill Hassell]

I have never seen any HP-UX machine that displays a leading zero from the uname -i command (and that is about 20 years of PA-RISC machines and all the Itanium machines I've looked at). I just tried an rx2600 and it returns:

$ uname -i
1928826293

Are these machines previously owned or perhaps repaired recently? A repaired CPU will require an authorized HP repair person to re-install the ID number. It sounds like the ID number has been corrupted and will HP to reinstall the ID number correctly.

[Stan Sieler]

On PA-RISC systems, the sw_id (serial number)
is stored as a 32-bit binary number ...
there's no way to "store" a leading 0,
since there's no textual representation.

Once the OS boots up, however, it's a different story. IIRC, HP-UX (PA and IPF) internally
stores the sw_id as a null-terminated
character string ... perhaps some software
is changing it behind your back?

Also, please tell us *which* serial number
that machinfo is reporting that you're
asking about? On rx2600, machinfo has
two different lines with the text "serial number":

processor serial number = 0x0000000000000000
machine serial number = US42879nnn

and several other "serial number"-like numbers :)

thanks!
Stan
sieler@allegro.com

[Jon Steele]

When I type in uname -i I get this
0288159798

This is an RX4640 machine with 11.i ver 3 os loaded on it.

Jon

[Torsten.]

What is the output of "machinfo"?

[Jon Steele]

machinfo
machine info
cpu info:
1 intel (R) Itanium 2 900 series proc 1.6 ghz
400 MT/s bus,cpu version C2
2 logical processor (2 per socket)

memory: 4066 mb (3.97 Gb )

firmware info:
firmware revision: 04.21
fp swa driver revision: 1.18
IPMI is supported on this system
BMC firmware revision : 4.05

platform info:
model "ia64 hp server rx4640"
machine ID number 112cf836-6f7a-11dc-9ed5-3d26b902ba19
machine serial number USE08078C0

os info:
nodename rx4640
release hp-ux B.11.31
version U (unlimited - user license)
machine ia64
ID number 0288159798
VMUNIX_release version
revision:VMUNIX:B.11.31_LR FLAVOR=perf


Jon

[Stan Sieler]

Out of curiousity, what version of machinfo do you have? Mine is:

what /usr/contrib/bin/machinfo

/usr/contrib/bin/machinfo:
machinfo.c $Date: 2007/05/29 16:00:00 $Revision: r11.23/6 PATCH_11.23 (PHCO_36670)
$Revision: @(#) machinfo R11.23_BL2007_0607_2 PATCH_11.23 PHCO_36670

and reports information in somewhat different format.

I tried the last 3 versions I could find,
and they all report the same information
in a format different from yours (similar, but different).

Perhaps that's a clue to something?

I noted that the decimal number your "uname" reports is the same value as the first hex number of "machine ID number", so that's good.

A note on machinfo: what the @#$%^ is going on with that utility?

I found four versions on our IPF systems:

-r-xr-xr-x 1 root sys 43812 Oct 16 10:52 machinfo.20050901.PHCO_34710
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root sys 43868 Oct 16 10:52 machinfo.20060405.PHCO_36670
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root sys 74444 Oct 16 10:54 machinfo.20070419
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root sys 43996 Oct 16 10:48 machinfo.20070529

The biggest one, which "what" reports as 2006-04-05, has the *LEAST* output, and is similar to Jon's output. But, that's not the most recent nor the oldest. It almost looks like someone made a bunch of changes, throwing away useful stuff in the process, released it, and then got slapped on the wrist and the prior version was restored?