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Old 04-09-2003
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!)
# 2  
Old 04-09-2003
There is no command to get the serial number of a SUN server (E3500 or any other) at either the boot prompt or after booting.

The banner command at the ok prompt give you the MAC address - once booted, you can see the MAC as root by running the ifconfig -a.

Or you might be looking for hostid (which is the command also).
# 3  
Old 04-10-2003
on aix its uname.
Code:
HOSTNAME:/root# uname -x
AIX HOSTNAME 43414860 3 4 000296754C00

In this case i know the serial is 29675. please note the serial number does not include the 4c00.

supposeidly for solaris it is uname -X but i dont think it works properly.
Code:
# uname -X
System = SunOS
Node = HOSTNAME
Release = 5.8
KernelID = Generic_108528-18
Machine = sun4u
BusType = <unknown>
Serial = <unknown>
Users = <unknown>
OEM# = 0
Origin# = 1
NumCPU = 4

you can read 'man -s 2 sysinfo'
Code:
SI_HW_SERIAL
           Copy into the array pointed to by  buf a string  which
           is  the  ASCII representation of the hardware-specific
           serial number of the physical  machine  on  which  the
           function  is  executed.  Note  that this may be imple-
           mented in Read-Only Memory, using  software  constants
           set  when  building  the operating system, or by other
           means, and may contain non-numeric characters.  It  is
           anticipated that manufacturers will not issue the same
           "serial number" to more than one physical machine. The
           pair   of  strings  returned  by   SI_HW_PROVIDER  and
           SI_HW_SERIAL  is  likely  to  be  unique  across   all
           vendor's SVR4 implementations.

# 4  
Old 04-10-2003
"uname -X" and sysinfo() were added to Solaris to make it compatible with System V Release 4. That stuff is only on SVR4 systems. And it can't really obtain a serial number on Solaris.

Sun does have a command called "hostid". The string that it outputs is often used for software licenses.
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