Retrieving hardware serial and model

[Zahier]

Hi Techies,

In the past I used to be an AIX admin and was spoilt by commands such as lsdev and lsattr, to retrieve the hardware information such as server serial and model numbers....firmware revisions, etc.


Is there an equivalent command in Suse to retrieve such info, specifically the serial and model? The hardware is HP blade servers running SLES9.2 operating systems.

Regards,
Zahier

 

[jet042]

Try siga. It stands for "Simple Information GAthering" and should give you the information than you want (and a lot more too).

 

[Zahier]

Thanks for responding jet042. That command will sure go to my list of useful admin shortcuts. Unfortunately it does not retrieve the info I am looking for.

The network administrator, says he could use HP's ILO to access the info.
Thanks again.

 

[danomac]

I needed to do this on a gentoo-based machine. It provides a package called dmidecode.

This dumps a lot of information that the BIOS reports, and here's a sample of its output:

$ dmidecode -q
SMBIOS 2.3 present.
45 structures occupying 1303 bytes.
Table at 0x000F2930.

BIOS Information
        Vendor: Award Software, Inc.
        Version: ASUS CUV4X ACPI BIOS Revision 1007
        Release Date: 11/02/2000
        Address: 0xF0000
        Runtime Size: 64 kB
        ROM Size: 256 kB
        Characteristics:
                ISA is supported
                PCI is supported
                PNP is supported
                APM is supported
                BIOS is upgradeable
                BIOS shadowing is allowed
                ESCD support is available
                Boot from CD is supported
                Selectable boot is supported
                BIOS ROM is socketed
                EDD is supported
                5.25"/360 KB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                3.5"/720 KB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
                8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
                Serial services are supported (int 14h)
                Printer services are supported (int 17h)
                CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
                ACPI is supported
                AGP is supported

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 25 bytes
System Information
        Manufacturer: System Manufacturer
        Product Name: System Name
        Version: System Version
        Serial Number: SYS-1234567890
        UUID: Not Settable
        Wake-up Type: Power Switch

...

It dumps a heck of a lot more information. It might not be exactly what you are looking for, but you can give it a try...

 

[yai]

look at /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/*