Re: Itanium model numbers {re F$getsyi("HW_MODEL")}
- From: rdeininger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Deininger)
- Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 06:39:04 GMT
In article <00A5E540.3C3E7BC5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, VAXman-
@SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
In article <eio13r$1d0c$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Stephen Hoffman<Hoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
What might you be up to here? What attribute, detail, hardware
configuration or software or hardware are you looking to differentiate here?
For licensing purposes to track the machine that a particular product is
licensed to. I have found organizations with multiple machines and only
a license for a single machine in that organization. It would really be
nice if a machine serial number -- accessible to software too -- was in-
troduced again. Barring that, at least knowing that the software is on a
machine of a particular type helps to keep the customer somewhat honest.
Every HP Integrity server has a unique serial number. It's put in during
manufacturing, and (for current systems) it can't be changed by a
non-privileged user.
Various ways to see a system's serial number...
1. For any of the entry-level systems with a Management Processor
installed, use the "df" (display FRU) command. One of the FRUs (which one
depends on the model of the system) displays a section of "chassis
information" that includes the system serial number. Mid-range and
high-end systems probably have similar information, but the details may
differ slightly.
2. Again for entry-level systems (and with recent firmware), the boot
manager menu shows the system serial number in the right-hand panel of the
display.
3. At the EFI shell, one of the "info" commands should show the serial
number. I forget which command; "info all" shows you everything.
If VMS shows you the serial number, the mechanism used escapes me at the
moment. It might be that nobody realized the serial number would be
useful, and VMS isn't digging it up and making it available.
.
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