Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: Anyone know how to get Serial number with 1 command?
Operating Systems Solaris Anyone know how to get Serial number with 1 command? Post 302274979 by michaelshon on Thursday 8th of January 2009 10:08:47 PM
Old 01-08-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by StarSol
I was talking to Sun support recently troubleshooting Netra T5220 and asked for the serial number. I asked if there is a command to find that out and the answer was NO. I know you can get the Chassis Serial Number from the LOM (showplatform -v) but obviously the server serial number is different.

The T5220 is one of the recent machines which does provide its chassis/product serial number in the output of prtdiag -v .

Unless we have a terminology problem here , the Chassis Serial Number from the ILOM and the "server serial number" are the same thing on this platform. There were some very early T5220 systems which did not provide the serial, but if the system firmware and software is current, this should no longer be an issue.

If you have a T5220 which has a physical serial tag with a different number than what is reported in prtdiag -v, I would like to know, and would like to get an explorer from the system.


Unfortunately, no one is an expert in everything, and those who have no practical use for the serial number are unlikely to know how to find it on any given machine.

It is a particular problem because there are upwards of a dozen different ways to find it, depending on the hardware platform. There is work underway at Sun right now to get the many product teams to settle on one or two standard mechanisms, but right now, it can take some hunting.

That is what sneep is attempting to do for you - to provide a single, simple interface to a complex (or at least tedious) search for the serial. More methods for automatic detection are being added all the time.
For platforms which either do not yet have a detector or are not capable of providing the serial, sneep can fall back to allowing you to to enter it manually .
 

9 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

serial number for E3500

just wanted to know the serial number of my machine E3500 with Solaris 8 installed.Does any one who what's the command that i can use when the OS is running?( not with the Banner Command!) (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: i2admin
3 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Tape Serial Number

Hello Experts, I've got a shell script that makes the backup of the files that i want. I also have this script showing the amount of files backed up and in witch folders they are. It's only missing one thing. I got all the information beeing stored in a text file and all i've got to do is to... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: jorge.ferreira
6 Replies

3. AIX

how to find serial number

hi how to find ( server machine )serial number throught the command in AIX thanks for your replay (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: chomca
3 Replies

4. Solaris

Display Serial Number

Hello, I am running Solaris 9 and I need to display the serial number of my machine. How can I do this? Here is my machine info: SunOS birch 5.9 Generic_118558-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240 Thank you, David (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: dkranes
5 Replies

5. Solaris

Serial number

Hi Solarizer ;) I have face the difficulties of gathering information about the serial number of sun machine. i think its can do so easy while the machine is just one or two. But i have to administrate hundreds of sun machine. Any body knows how to gather this information by the command ? ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: tpx99
4 Replies

6. Linux

Device serial number

Hey! I'm trying to figure out a sollution for a problem I have at my company with an Iomega MiniMax 500 GB USB disk. If i run cat /proc/bus/usb/devices I get this information: T: Bus=01 Lev=02 Prnt=04 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 5 Spd=480 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: noratx
2 Replies

7. Solaris

Finding server serial number

Hi All, I wnat to know how to find out the Server serial number in command prompt? I am using sneep command but it throughing unknown. Thanks and Regards, (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: lbreddy
8 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

How do I use sed to return only the serial number here?

I'd appreciate the help and explaining "which each switch/command does. Thanks in advance. 1742@3min# ./fmtopo|grep serial hc://:product-id=SUNW,Sun-Blade-2500:server-id=c3admin:serial=130B58E3146/motherboard=0/cpu=0 (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: LittleLebowski
2 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Help about bind serial number

Hello folks. Please let me understand the bind serial number. I am confuse. 13011321 ---------- Post updated at 08:32 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:55 AM ---------- Thanks problem is solved. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: learnbash
1 Replies

LEARN ABOUT OSF1

dc

dc(7)							 Miscellaneous Information Manual						     dc(7)

NAME

       dc - serial line/mouse/keyboard

SYNOPSIS

       controller   dc0   at ibus0   slot 0   vector dcintr

DESCRIPTION

       The  dc	serial	line controller provides DECstation 2100, DECstation 3100, DECstation 5000, and DECstation 5100 computer systems with key-
       board, mouse, and serial communications interfaces. The serial communications interfaces on the DECstation 2100 and DECstation 3100 provide
       partial	modem  control.  The  serial communications interfaces on the DECstation 5000 provide full modem control.  The device special file
       /dev/tty01 on a DECstation 5100 provides full modem control, while the remaining ports provide no modem control at all.	All serial  commu-
       nications interfaces operate at baud rates from B50 to B9600, excluding B200.

       The  dc	ports  are  used as follows: Usage Graphics device keyboard at 4800 BPS Mouse or tablet at 4800 BPS Communications port 1 (w/modem
       control)/local terminal Communications port 2 (w/modem control)/local terminal

       On all systems except the DECstation 5100, serial port 2 is used for the system console port in server (that is,  non-graphics)	configura-
       tions.  On DECstation 5100s, the serial port labeled 3 on the back of the system is always the system console port.  The serial system con-
       sole port always operates at 9600 BPS, 8-bits, no parity; modem control is not supported.

RESTRICTIONS

       Data communications equipment attached to the console serial port in server configurations must be set to 9600 BPS, 8-bits, no parity.  The
       scc driver enforces this restriction.

FILES

       console terminal local terminal local terminal local terminal (DECstation 5100 only)

RELATED INFORMATION

       console(7), devio(7), tty(7), MAKEDEV(8) delim off

																	     dc(7)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 11:48 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy