Obtaining system serial number from local zone


 
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# 1  
Old 03-29-2011
Obtaining system serial number from local zone

Hi,

I need to install a license key for synergy which requires the server's serial number to be provided but since I'm installing it on a local zone, would the installation work?

Smilie
# 2  
Old 03-29-2011
Are you sure it is the serial number ?
Usually, software still requiring such data use the hostid, not the serial number.
# 3  
Old 03-29-2011
i'm quite positive, the license vendor requested me for the serial number.
# 4  
Old 03-29-2011
There is no single API, if any, to retrieve the serial number depending on the Solaris release, the hardware used and the optional packages installed.

Possible ways are sneep, prtdiag, smbios, ipmitool, ...

Therefore, I still think your software vendor is either asking for an hostid or just not enforcing the serial number binding.

Why not directly asking him about the zone case anyway ?
# 5  
Old 04-06-2011
I think that sneep supposed to be the simplest way.
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