Solaris

prtdiag does not show you the serial number that is on the back of the system. As for the other, I don't see a corelation there either.

Cheers,

Keith

If you can get to the system console you can drop it down into the >OK prompt( by pressing the STOP-A key sequence)

then once at the prompt type "banner" to show the system banner and the serial # is posted there for you. but if you can not get to the console, they I am not aware of a shell commend that will allow you to display the serial #.

I tried the prtdiag -v and it just shows the hardware that is installed on the system.. Processors, Memory, Power supplies, etc..

I use a SunFire 280R, V880, and ultra5, and they all display the serial # in the OBP at startup.


In responce to davidg's responce. EEPROM can only set variables and diagnostice switches from a running shell, it can not run OBP command such as "banner", or "boot cdrom -s".


Jonathan

Note to early reply************

you Must do an "init 0" before pressing the Key sequence "STOP-A"

If you do not bring it to a single user mode you will croupt you file systems


a BIG MUST!!!!!


Jonathan

I think a simple reboot shld work .. when the system first comes up just after the banner and sun logo u have the serial number ..

I think so


I dunno if hostid works ...

The serial number you see in the OBP when it boots is *not* the same as the system serial number on the Sun sticker on the back of the machine.

I believe that it is the serial number of the prom chip, but I'm not sure of that. But in any case, if you need the system serial number itself you can't get it from the command line.

Now that you've gone to the site to read the physical serial number,
you might get some benefit from the "sneep" tool from Sun.

Sun Sneep - Serial Number in EEPROM

Sneep provides a persistent, software-accessible Chassis Serial Number (CSN) for virtually all Sun Solaris hardware platforms. Sneep uses the system EEPROM for storage of the Chassis Serial Number and any other important user-defined data such as asset, contract, or location information. The presence of the software-accessible serial number and other service-related information can significantly simplify activities related to system service and asset management.

Sneep can keep the serial and other asset information right in the eeprom
where it's handy, protected, and stays associated with the machine,
and it gives you easy access to it in software.

Whenever possible, sneep gets the serial from the machine from any of several different data sources and commands. If sneep cannot find it, it depends on you to supply it after your trip to the data center.

BTW-
some of the newer Sun machines do provide software access to the true serial number,
like the SF3800-6800, the SF12K/SF15K, and newer . Most of those keep the serial
in the System Controller or the ALOM processor, and getting it still takes some work,
but at least it is possible.
Sneep is definitely the easiest thing to use.
Once you have the serial number, sneep will keep it safe and handy.

sneep sounds like an interesting option. Here is another thread on this subject which mentions the serialid program.