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by **P.M.Won** » Tue, 16 Nov 1999 04:00:00

Being away from my work place on vacation, but have the need to
find the serial no. of a rs6000 f40
, i can telnet back from home
any command under aix 4.2.1 to show this number

by **charles hsia** » Tue, 16 Nov 1999 04:00:00

uname -a

Quote:
> Being away from my work place on vacation, but have the need to
> find the serial no. of a rs6000 f40
> , i can telnet back from home
> any command under aix 4.2.1 to show this number

by **Alex Hudght** » Tue, 16 Nov 1999 04:00:00

You're on vacation and you want to know a system serial number ?

Are you crazy ??????/ :-)))))))

Alex

Quote:
>Being away from my work place on vacation, but have the need to
>find the serial no. of a rs6000 f40
>, i can telnet back from home
>any command under aix 4.2.1 to show this number

by **peter_rei..** » Tue, 16 Nov 1999 04:00:00

> uname -a

> > Being away from my work place on vacation, but have the need to
> > find the serial no. of a rs6000 f40
> > , i can telnet back from home
> > any command under aix 4.2.1 to show this number

In my experience, uname -a returns the CPU id, not the serial number on
the label on the machine. I know no way to get this number on the
label from an AIX command.

If you want the CPU id ( say, for software licensing puposes) use
uname. If you want support from IBM, they may want the serial number...

Good Luck,

Pete

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by **John Newma** » Tue, 16 Nov 1999 04:00:00

uname -a shows only the CPU id of the machine, it is no way related to
the serial number of the machine.

The best thing to do is have a book with the numbers written in.

Hope this helps,

John.

> uname -a

> > Being away from my work place on vacation, but have the need to
> > find the serial no. of a rs6000 f40
> > , i can telnet back from home
> > any command under aix 4.2.1 to show this number

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by **Pierre Charpena** » Wed, 17 Nov 1999 04:00:00

Try :

lscfg -v

Pierre

"P.M.Wong" a crit :

Quote:> Being away from my work place on vacation, but have the need to
> find the serial no. of a rs6000 f40
> , i can telnet back from home
> any command under aix 4.2.1 to show this number

by **guyver_t..** » Wed, 17 Nov 1999 04:00:00

try >

lsattr -El sys0 -a systemid

I think this works for AIX 4 onwards

Quote:
> Being away from my work place on vacation, but have the need to
> find the serial no. of a rs6000 f40
> , i can telnet back from home
> any command under aix 4.2.1 to show this number

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by **Matthew Land** » Wed, 17 Nov 1999 04:00:00

> try >

> lsattr -El sys0 -a systemid

> I think this works for AIX 4 onwards

> > Being away from my work place on vacation, but have the need to
> > find the serial no. of a rs6000 f40
> > , i can telnet back from home
> > any command under aix 4.2.1 to show this number

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On new enough systems too. This won't work for older PCI or MCA systems.

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by **peter_rei..** » Wed, 17 Nov 1999 04:00:00

> > try >

> > lsattr -El sys0 -a systemid

> > I think this works for AIX 4 onwards

> > > Being away from my work place on vacation, but have the need to
> > > find the serial no. of a rs6000 f40
> > > , i can telnet back from home
> > > any command under aix 4.2.1 to show this number

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> > Before you buy.

> On new enough systems too. This won't work for older PCI or MCA
systems.

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> Comments, views, and opinions are mine alone, not IBM's.

My serial number is on the front label of a 43P-140. it is:

7043 44-Tnnnn

lsattr -El sys0 -a systemid gives:

AnnNKnnnnnn = Hardware System Identifier.

Not the same as Serial Number...

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by **Matthew Land** » Wed, 17 Nov 1999 04:00:00

> My serial number is on the front label of a 43P-140. it is:

> 7043 44-Tnnnn

> lsattr -El sys0 -a systemid gives:

> AnnNKnnnnnn = Hardware System Identifier.

> Not the same as Serial Number...

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As I said it is system dependant. Evidently there is a greater
limitation than I had first thought. Basically the systems that
returned a 'uname -M' in the format of IBM,<model>-<type>, like
IBM,7043-150, the command lsattr -El sys0 -a systemid worked and
gave me a response (X is serial no.):

systemid IBM,01XXXXXXX Hardware system identifier False

On another new system the uname -M returned "IBM PPS Model 7025 (ED)"
and the lsattr did not respond correctly. This seems to be a hit
and miss method.

- Matt

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