Diff between the systems

[Kaps_2]

Hello All,

Is there anything different in the OS levels of these machines?Why one is showing unknown and the other as tannus?


HP-UX unknown B.11.23 U ia64 0059353916 unlimited-user license –machine.

HP-UX tannus B.11.23 U ia64 2408175243 unlimited-user license

What do the numbers signify?

[Pete Randall]

It says "unknown" because the nodename is not set. You can set it with uname -S or you can use /sbin/set_parms hostname.

For OS level differences you would be better off looking at swlist output.


Pete

[Kaps_2]

pete,

thanks for the quick reply, Both systems have B.11.23 OS level then why the numbers differs from each other?

[Pete Randall]

You could spend a little time with the uname man page.

The numbers (0059353916 and 2408175243, presumably) are the machine ID, which is unique to each machine, similar to a serial number.


Pete

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi Kaps,

The number is the UID of the system.

# uname -i

from the man uname
Print the machine identification number

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Avinash20]

You could get the same with

# uname -i

-i Display the machine identification number (or the
node name, if the machine identification number
cannot be determined). This option cannot display
the unique machine identification number.

[Kaps_2]

thanks pete & rob for the quick reply.

[Kaps_2]

Thanks