hi experts,

hi all, need help, how to get serial number of cpu or other hardware using command?
does anybody know using what syntax?

thank you

wu

I don't think so it's possible, but the latest explorer from sun you can find out the part-number of the hardware instead.

I don't know about CPU Sn, But you might find sneep usefull
http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=4304155a

https://www.sun.com/products-n-solut...0/alomLOC.html

this document is only for T1000 and T2000 servers using "lights out management" there is a "showfru" command which can display out the server partnumber and serial number. According to the document and I also checked briefly from sunsolve, in lights out mode I think you are in NVram mode where editing NVRAM settings are possible. Be very very careful.

To use lights out I heard you need to turn the power-key to something, but I only heard and I'm not really sure so please check with sun or your vendor to confirm. But then again if you had to physically be there at the server to switch the key you might as well peek behind the server to look for the serial number.

I have never used lights out and don't intend to. If you screw up your server NVRAM settings and cannot boot up please don't blame me.

The ALOM and LOM ports are very usefull and you will need to use them if you want remote console access.

On many recent Sun platforms, the component serial numbers are available from the prtfru command. Sometimes on the system controller or ILOM Iif the system has one) there are commands like showfru and showplatform which may give this kind of information.

It is good of you to caution everyone to be especially careful.

However, Lights Out Mode (ILOM, RSC, etc) is not nearly as inherently dangerous as you may think, and you don't have to be physically there at the server. In fact, the whole point of LOM is to be able to manage the server from another location.
As for the keyswith, these machines generally have a "virtual keyswitch" controlled by software commands.

The commands like showfru just show information and do not change it. However, there are commands to change things and update the nvram - just as there are in OBP.
If you don't use them, you are in no particular danger.