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Darrell Tschakert
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Print_manifest gives wrong Serial Number

Good Morning,
We have two rx2620's and four rx4640's. The rx2620's were Ignited from one system. All of the rx4640's were ignited from one rx4640's. When I run print_manifest on any of these servers, they give the serial number of the Ignite source. I see this as a problem. I can use stm to get the proper machine Serial Numbers. Can anyone tell me where print_manifest is getting it's serial numbers? Can anyone tell me how to correct this problem and get print_manifest to produce the correct Serial Number? Are there other bits of info that might be incorrect in the output of print_manifest.

Thanks,

Darrell Tscahkert

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James R. Ferguson
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Re: Print_manifest gives wrong Serial Number

Hi Darrell:

If I am correct, your serial number will be recorded in:

/var/opt/ignite/local/manifest/manifest.seed

Regards!

...JRF...
Darrell Tschakert
Regular Advisor

Re: Print_manifest gives wrong Serial Number

JRF,
Great. Thanks. This helps a lot.

Now my next question. I could simply edit this file by hand. However, I wander if Ignite has a script to update the file instead. This would save me time and, perhaps, any other similar files that need updating.

Darrell T.
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Sp4admin
Trusted Contributor

Re: Print_manifest gives wrong Serial Number

Hello Darrell,

I have seen this when a box has been ignite from another server. I would use the "getconf MACHINE_SERIAL" command.

sp,

Darrell Tschakert
Regular Advisor

Re: Print_manifest gives wrong Serial Number

SP,
I have no problem getting the correct machine serial number. We just want print_manifest to produce the correct serial number. We sometime send print_manifest output to HP in order to report the details of our servers for our Maintenance Contracts. I have a script that uses cstm to produce the correct serial number. Your "getconf MACHINE_SERIAL" is much faster, so I will change my script to use getconf ... . Thanks for the hint.

Thanks,

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Geoff Wild
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Re: Print_manifest gives wrong Serial Number

/usr/bin/getsn is just as fast - and less typing :)

After that, update

/var/opt/ignite/local/manifest/manifest.seed

with the correct serial number - then print_manifest will work.

Rgds...Geoff
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Darrell Tschakert
Regular Advisor

Re: Print_manifest gives wrong Serial Number

JRF pointed out that print_manifest gets it's machine serial number from /var/opt/ignite/local/manifest/manifest.seed

I will have to update manifest.seed by hand since there does not appear to be a script to handle this job.

Using "getconf MACHINE_SERIAL" is much faster than the cstm method that I have been using to get the machine serial number.

getsn does not work on our 11.23 system. It gives the following on our rx2620's and rx4640's:
PDC Call to PDC_MODEL/PDC_MODEL_GET_PLAT_INFO failed with status 0.
This system or PDC version may not support this PDC call.Serial Number: Not Available

Thank you all.

Darrell Tschakert
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