Set the Serial Number in HPUX?


 
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# 8  
Old 03-11-2009
DB, correct me:
It is also written in the box no? depending of the machine it could be on the front door, on the side panel or inside etc.. usually a sticker...
Anyway the only time you need this serial number is when you call HP for support/maintenance contact
# 9  
Old 03-11-2009
DB, I was responding to his question on how to set a serial number.
# 10  
Old 03-11-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by vbe
DB, correct me:
It is also written in the box no? depending of the machine it could be on the front door, on the side panel or inside etc.. usually a sticker...
Anyway the only time you need this serial number is when you call HP for support/maintenance contact
This was for an inventory project for a client who didn't want a "sneakernet" solution to collect serial numbers (along with other hardware/software attributes) for their HP and other UNIX boxes. We were fortunate to acquire a PA-RISC HP workstation (and a pretty modern one at that) on the cheap, but I guess you get what you pay for... Smilie
# 11  
Old 03-11-2009
Did you try to run print_manifest? (You never know...) Nice little box you got here...
addendum
I am saying that because of a serious issue I had before Christmas, where a mains chassis cabling burnt and there is no spare for that... The poor HP support engineer came with spare motherboard PSU etc ( but I told them...).
Since it was sensible production server I offered to strip down another server and because both of us were hungry and willing to go home (friday evening - not cool!), we opted to use the HBAs and internal disks and RAM of the burnt box and put them in the other.
Just tested now
Guess what, print_manifest gives me the serial number of the second although it had no more disks of its own...

Last edited by vbe; 03-11-2009 at 02:04 PM.. Reason: addendum
# 12  
Old 03-11-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by vbe
Did you try to run print_manifest?
Yeah, both print_manifest and DB's "getconf MACHINE_SERIAL" did not return a serial number.
# 13  
Old 03-11-2009
But does print_manifest give you what it should : The hardware and sofware installed and configuration?
# 14  
Old 03-11-2009
Yup, it prints everything but the serial number:

Code:
#./print_manifest
System Information

    Your Hewlett-Packard computer has software installed and 
    configured as follows.

    The system was created January 19, 2009, 15:03:37 EST.
    It was created with Ignite-UX revision B.4.4.27.

-------------------------------------------------------------
NOTE: You should retain this information for future reference.
-------------------------------------------------------------


System Hardware

    Model:              9000/785/C3750
    Main Memory:        1536 MB
    Processors:         1
    OS mode:            64 bit
    LAN hardware ID:    0x00306E49A0BD
    Software ID:        2014355092
    Keyboard Language:  USB_PS2_DIN_US_English

    Storage devices                  HW Path           Interface          
    HP 36.4GMAU3036NC 34732 Mb       10/0/15/1.6.0     SCSI C896 Ultra2 Wide LVD 

    I/O Interfaces 
    Class          H/W Path       Driver         Description             
    lan            10/0/12/0      btlan          HP PCI 10/100Base-TX Core 
    audio          10/0/13/0      audio          Built-in Audio      
    ext_bus        10/0/14/0      side           IDE                 
    tty            10/0/14/1/1    asio0          Built-in RS-232C    
    tty            10/0/14/1/2    asio0          Built-in RS-232C    
    ext_bus        10/0/14/1/3    SCentIf        Built-in Parallel Interface 
    usb            10/0/14/2      hcd            Built-in USB Interface 
    ext_bus        10/0/15/0      c720           SCSI C896 Ultra Wide Single-Ended 
    ext_bus        10/0/15/1      c720           SCSI C896 Ultra2 Wide LVD 
    graphics       10/6/2/0       graph3         PCI Display (103c108b) 


Installed Software

    Your system was installed with HP-UX version B.11.11.

    Your system has the following software products installed and 
    configured on the system disk drive(s).  

    Product          Revision          Description                             
    B8111AA          1.2.2.15.00       Java 2 RTE for HP-UX (700/800), PA1.1 + PA2.0 Add On 
[SNIP]
LVM File System Configuration

    This system is configured with Logical Volume Manager (LVM) file systems.
    Refer to the File System layout section for information on the LVM layout.


JFS File System Configuration

    This system is configured with a Journaled File System (referred to  
    as either JFS or VXFS).  Refer to the File System layout section for
    information on JFS/VXFS file systems.


Disk layout

    LVM disk                   Device file        HW Addr      size   vol. grp
    HP 36.4GMAU3036NC          /dev/dsk/c3t6d0    10/0/15/1.6.0 34732  /dev/vg00


File System layout

    LVM Device file            mount point    size  fs type
    /dev/vg00:                                           
[SNIP]
Swap configuration

    type       size  priority  device/location
    dev        3072     1      /dev/vg00/lvol2


Kernel Configuration

    The following drivers or parameters are configured into your system's
    kernel.  After installing HP-UX, use the sam(1m) command to configure
    the following items into the kernel:
	default_disk_ir             1
	STRMSGSZ                65535
	nstrpty                    60
	maxswapchunks            1536


System Information

    The following parameters were set on the configured target:
	hostname:           InControl10
	IP address:         10.222.22.130
	subnet mask:        255.255.255.0
	gateway IP address: 10.222.22.1
	time zone:          PST8PDT
	DNS domain name:    HQ.INCONTROL
	DNS IP address:     10.222.22.124

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