Hello,

I am stuck with this. Can experts help with the following queries?

Q1. Is there any command (run by a non-superuser preferably) which displays the
firmware serial number on
a. sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4
b. IBM,7026-H70
c. HP, 9000/800/L1000-44

Q2. Any command (run by a non-superuser preferably) to procure physical disk
serial number on HP-UX B.11.11

Thanks in advance for your help.

In article <f092799f.0403062127.655cd76d@posting.google.com >,
jsb_bh@yahoo.com (jsb_bh) wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am stuck with this. Can experts help with the following queries?
>
> Q1. Is there any command (run by a non-superuser preferably) which displays
> the
> firmware serial number on
> a. sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4
> b. IBM,7026-H70
> c. HP, 9000/800/L1000-44

I think all the Solaris utilities that give this information run as
root, so the answer to this question is no.

>
> Q2. Any command (run by a non-superuser preferably) to procure physical disk
> serial number on HP-UX B.11.11

The only application that I vaguely recall giving any sort of disk
information was lanscan(?). This is from 10.x days. Never tried it on
11. It may also require root.

Sounds like you're SOL here.

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In article <f092799f.0403062127.655cd76d@posting.google.com >,
jsb_bh@yahoo.com (jsb_bh) writes:
> Hello,
>
> I am stuck with this. Can experts help with the following queries?
>
> Q1. Is there any command (run by a non-superuser preferably) which displays the
> firmware serial number on
> a. sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4

Not sure what you mean by "firmware serial number". The unique-per-system
ID number can be obtained with "hostid", /usr/sbin/sysdef -h, and in a
program by gethostid(3c) or by the SI_HW_SERIAL command of sysinfo(2)
(except that the latter will be an ASCII string representing the number
in decimal rather than hexadecimal). The firmware _version_, OTOH, can
be obtained by /usr/sbin/prtconf -V or /usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag -v;
the latter will provide lots of other information, and may also provide the
POST (PROM power-on diagnostics) version as well.


> b. IBM,7026-H70
> c. HP, 9000/800/L1000-44
>
> Q2. Any command (run by a non-superuser preferably) to procure physical disk
> serial number on HP-UX B.11.11

No idea about the non-Sun systems, although both vendors probably have
online documentation, i.e. in addition to

http://docs.sun.com/

there's also

http://docs.hp.com/

and

http://www.elink.ibmlink.ibm.com/pub...Y=US&&FNC=ICL&


(btw, on Suns, disk serial numbers may be obtained with iostat -E, at least
on newer versions of Solaris)

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