HP-UX host ID

[Bruce North]

System ID is supposed to be returned with
getconf() CS_PARTITION_ID
A 10-12 digit number.

When the return is
_P0_V01
what can be done to fix this?

bnorth@unibar.com

[Tim Nelson]

CS_PARTITION_IDENT and MACHINE_IDENT both return the same value on my IA servers.

# getconf CS_PARTITION_IDENT
1dd2e3e0-49ab-11dc-b006-001a4b065990
# getconf MACHINE_IDENT
1dd2e3e0-49ab-11dc-b006-001a4b065990


What OS version ?
What type of HW ?

[Franky_1]

Hi Bruce,

getconf MACHINE_IDENT should give you the desired 10 digit number

Regards

Franky

[Matti_Kurkela]

Apparently the CS_PARTITION_IDENT is created by appending a partition identifier to the CS_MACHINE_IDENT (alias MACHINE_IDENT) string.

"man confstr" says about MACHINE_IDENT:

[...]
A null string is returned if no ID number is available; this is expected to be the case only for prototype machines or other systems improperly configured in manufacturing.
[...]

If the MACHINE_IDENT is null, CS_PARTITION_IDENT would then contain only the partition identifier. _P0_V01 means "the second vPar of the first (or maybe only) nPar".

I assume you would know if you had a prototype machine, so a HP support call may be required.

MK