Check HP-UX system serial number

[Sumant M Kumar]

Hi,

Is there any command to check system serial number in hp-ux.I dont want to check while booting or on ILO.

In VMS - $show cpu/full

Regards,
Sumant

[Steven Schweda]

You mean like this?:

dyi # getconf MACHINE_SERIAL
TW23900053

dyi # getconf CS_MACHINE_SERIAL
TW23900053

dyi # machinfo | grep serial
Machine serial number: TW23900053


If I had an HP-UX question, then a VMS forum
is unlikely to be the first place I'd ask it.

An HP-UX Forum search for
serial
should find some things. That's where I
found the things shown above.

> In VMS - $show cpu/full

Sometimes, perhaps. Around here:

alp $ pipe show cpu /full | search sys$input serial
Primary CPU = 0
HWRPB CPUs = 4
Page Size = 8192
Revision Code =
Serial Number =
Serial Number..:

[Raj D.]

Sumant M Kumar,

Check this out:


To find the system serial number:
- on 11iv1, (+ v2, v3 )

# ( echo "selclass qualifier system;info;wait;infolog" | /usr/sbin/cstm ) | grep -i "System serial"





- on v2 v3 :(11.23 & 11.31 )
# machinfo | grep "Machine serial"
Machine serial number: USE7400AN6



Cheers,
Raj.




(*Dont forget to assign the pending points. )

[Sumant M Kumar]

Thanks a lot Steven and Raj...its worked for me.

Regards,
Sumant

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,
>>Is there any command to check system serial number in hp-ux.I dont want to check while booting or on ILO.

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

Suraj

[Tingli]

Best way is to look at the system itself as sometimes those command will bring up a wrong SN, especially if the system is cloned one.

[Viveki]

Yes, Tingly came up with a right point.

The serial number of a system may vary from the label physically present. The feild engineer needs to re enter the parameters like serial number, product number etc. while replacing parts mainly the system board.

[Torsten.]

Best way is to look at the system itself as sometimes those command will bring up a wrong SN, especially if the system is cloned one.


This cannot be, because the number is directly read from the system, this data isn't stored on a disk.


OK, a "repaired" system may have a wrong value, but I would not call this "repaired" at all ... and you would see other strange things in this case.


Easy way

# machinfo
(if available)

or

# echo "sel dev 1; info;wait;il"|cstm

and grep for the serial number.

Remember, older systems do not store this at all.

[kamaleswaran]

Find Below listed command are help full to get serial number.

1) #print_manifest

2) #machinfo

3) #cstm
cstm>selall
cstm>infolog


q for quit.

[Tingli]

As far as I can remember, that I had a system with wrong SN from those commands. It rarely happens and it does happen.