System Serial Number

[Rgomes]

Hi,

Is there any HPUX command to check system's serial number from OS( 11i)?

thanks all

richard

[Robert-Jan Goossens · Accepted solution]

Hi Richard,

Have You got Ignite installed ?

# /opt/ignite/bin/print_manifest | grep "Serial number:"

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.

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[KCS_1]

hi,

you can find out your system's serial number,

# /var/opt/ignite/bin/print_manifest


and

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


have a good day!

[KCS_1]

haha..i wrote misspells..

#/opt/ignite/bin/print_manifest

is correct path.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Richard,

Use 'cstm' to get the Serial number if you have the latest hardware like L, N, RPs, SDs etc.,

cstm
>map
>sel dev 1
>info
>infolog

If the system is old hardware like K, then you don't have much choice and you have to go and physically look at the server.

print_manifest can print the Serial Number only if you didn't re-install the factory installed OS. It basically reads the serial number from a seed file populated by HP during the OS install.

-Sri

[Bill Hassell]

Reading the serial number electronically only works with very new machines (the last year or two). The vast majority of HP 9000 computers (workstations and servers) have no method to obtain the serial number in HP-UX or processor ROMs. The ID number reported by uname -i is an encrypted portion of the serial number and processor information, used only for unique licensing.

As mentioned, the online diagnostics (cstm, mstm, xstm) can obtain the information--if they have been installed. They are located on your Support Plus CDROM in case you need to (re)install them. Or you can download the SupportPlus packages from itrc.hp.com

[Rgomes]

Hi All,

Thank you veey much for those reply. This will help me a lot.


Thanks again


Richard

[KCS_1]

Richard!! You're welcome :)