H2 find serial and product number remotely?

[Bengt Bergholm]

Is there a simple way to find these two key informations from any HP/Compaq server system?

I need to make and inventory of boxes scattered all over the world and find out their warranty status amongst other things so I can't really go to each and every one of them to have a look...

The boxes aren't necessarily installed with Smartstart or any CPQ/HP utilities at all. All of them are Win2K och Win2K3.

[kris rombauts]

Bengt,


you could use the folowing methods i.e.

- for the server serialnumber if it is a Proliant, use the iLO port which is integrated on most Proliants or use the RILOE/RILOE-II if you have that card
installed. In the system status, under Server Status, their is a field called :

"Server ID" that shows the serialnumber.
The section under "Host Platform" also shows the server model i.e.
Proliant ML370 G3


- If the Insight Management agents are installed, go to the system home page and under the Management Agents information, Asset Control their is also the serialnumber.

- to get the serialnumber on the commandline, try the attached script. It might require you to allow this type of script to run first (policies/security settings on w2k3 i.e.)




HTH

Kris

[Prashant (I am Back)]

Hi,

Management homepage will show the information for the same.

REgards,
Prashant S.

[Bengt Bergholm]

Thanks for the tips guys. ILO is only standard in G3-systems and AFAIK it must also be configured with an IP-address to be accesible and this has not been done on the systems in question so unfortunatly this is not a possible way. Most of the systems don't have HP/Compaq management software installed either so... I will try the script that you attached during the day and see if it works! Thanks!

Any other ideas considering the additional information above?

[Prashant (I am Back)]

Well try and update on post please. So i also know the out come

Regards,
Prashant S

[Oleg Koroz]

run 7.20 (along there is newer one available)
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/21600.html

Installation doesn't require reboot or any agents
If you have file downloaded run 60 second and you get Serial number


From Text report see

SUBSYSTEM INFORMATION:

Chassis Serial Num: xxxxxxxxx

[Bengt Bergholm]

Script works like a charm, testade the ADU also but still all I get is serial number which the script also does without having to install anything. But this still leaves us with the model# unknown (if I didn't miss anything). No WMI-entry for that? Any other HP Util that could be installed or ran without reboot that could give me this?

[kris rombauts]

Hi Bengt,

try this one, i added the server model.
So it now provides :

- manufacturer
- serialnumber
- BIOS version
- server model and generation (Gx)


This should work fine on most Proliants, I only tried it on some G3 models running w2k3


HTH

Kris