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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 .