[Sunhelp] finding out serial #

[George Munk]

On most SGI desktop systems that I have experience with (Indy, Indigo2, O2,
Octane but not Indigo), the system serial number is the Ethernet MAC address.
When hardware has been exchanged due to failure, the replacement system has had
the original's MAC address/serial number.

% nvram eaddr
08:00:69:uv:wx:yz

Serial number = 080069uvwxyz



George Munk


On 20-Jul-2000 dhansen at zebra.net wrote:
> 
>>From:                 singer at redbrick.dcu.ie (Brian Scanlan)
> 
>>On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 01:30:28PM -0400, Dale Ghent wrote:
>>> It's a real bummer, too. Especially when the machine you need the SN of is
>>> sitting in a remote and unmanned POP. In IRIX on a SGI, it's as simple as
>>> the amsysinfo command. With Sun, you have to psysically find it. I find
>>> this omission kinda hard to believe.
> 
>>It's a deliberate policy.
> 
> Taking inventory is another very important task that should not be forgotten.
> 
>  Out of curiousity, where do people expect something like that to be stored:
>     the NVRAM?   what happens when/if that gets replaced?
>     a chip on the Mainboard?  what happens when/if that gets replaced?
>     etc...?  what happens when/if that gets replaced?
> 
>  Only relatively recent SGI hardware platforms have machine readable
> serial numbers. Amsysinfo cannot return a serial number on any
> piece of hardware that doesn't give it out which leaves an Irix admin in 
> the same situation if s/he has any older hardware. However, I do wonder where
> SGI decided was a logical place to store that kind of information. Anyone
> know?
> 
>  -david
>    
> 
> 
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E-Mail: George Munk <munkg at iomega.com>
Date: 20-Jul-2000
Time: 14:19:11

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