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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

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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 .

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inquiry-device-type(9P) 				   Kernel Properties for Drivers				   inquiry-device-type(9P)

NAME

       inquiry-device-type, inquiry-vendor-id, inquiry-product-id, inquiry-revision-id, inquiry-serial-no - inquiry properties for SCSI devices

DESCRIPTION

       These  are  optional  properties, typically created by the system, for SCSI target devices. References to these properties should use their
       sys/scsi/impl/inquiry.h defined names.

       inquiry-device-type is an integer property. When present, the least significant byte of the value indicates the device type as  defined	by
       the SCSI standard. Consumers of this property should compare the property values with DTYPE_* values defined in sys/scsi/generic/inquiry.h.

       inquiry-vendor-id  is  a  string  property.  When  present,  it	contains the vendor information. This information typically comes from the
       scsi_inquiry(9S) "inq_vid" field.

       inquiry-product-id is a string property. When present, it contains the product identification. This information typically  comes  from  the
       scsi_inquiry(9S) "inq_pid" field.

       inquiry-revision-id  is	a  string  property.  When  present,  it  contains  the  product  revision. This revision typically comes from the
       scsi_inquiry(9S) "inq_rev" field.

       inquiry-serial-no is a string property. When present, it contains the serial number. The serial number is typically obtained from the  EVPD
       "Unit Serial Number" SCSI INQUIRY data (page 0x80).

SEE ALSO

       scsi_inquiry(9S)

       Writing Device Drivers

NOTES

       Values  established at tran_tgt_init(9E) time by an HBA driver take precedence over values established by the system, and HBA driver values
       may not be the same length as the typical scsi_inquiry(9S) field.

SunOS 5.11							    18 May 2001 					   inquiry-device-type(9P)