BIOS/Machine serial number

[Viney Kumar]

HI All

Hi

Please explain the meaning of below commands

echo "selclass qualifier CPU;info;wait;infolog"| /usr/sbin/cstm 2>/dev/null | sed -n -e '/Board Info!/,/Artwork Rev/p' 2>/dev/null

can we get the BIOS /Machine serial number from it.

Im already aware about print_manifest and getconf MACHINE_SERIAL



Regards

[Kranti Mahmud]

Hi Vinay,

Read the below links:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=91018

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1378825

Rgds-Kranti

[sujit kumar singh]

Hi The cstm command does show the System Serial Number.

you can use as a superuser

#cstm
cstm>map sel all
cstm>info;wait
cstm>infolog


regards
sujit

[R.K. #]

Hi Viney,

Two ways:

#cstm
cstm>sel dev all
cstm>info
cstm>infolog


Another:
# getconf MACHINE_SERIAL

[Torsten.]

I think your command greps for component serial numbers, but nor system serial.
This is kind of useless I guess.

Try to select the system item in stm or use "machinfo".

[Bill Hassell]

The example is very specific for board information. If the serial number is what you need, you can use this command:

echo "selclass qualifier system;info;wait;infolog" | cstm | grep -i serial

Since you did not specify which of the several dozen (and very different) models that you have, there may not be a serial number electronically readable. As far as a BIOS revision, HP-UX boxes are much more complex than a simple PC so there is no single value for firmware. There are board firmware values, management port firmware values, even backplanes and power control values. Leave off the grep from the above command and you can see the various subsystems and numbers.