dmidecode -s system-serial-number
gives me the Service tag number on my host. RHEL 5, M610...
or:
dmidecode | grep -A4 'System Information' | tail -n1 | awk '{print $NF}'
if you have an older version of dmidecode.
Now, resetting it is a different ball of wax...
don
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J. Epperson
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:38 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Changing BIOS Boot Order from Linux Command Line w/out
Complete OM Install
On Thu, March 25, 2010 11:00, Dameon Wagner wrote:
>
> Does your distro have the SMBios tools? I use Debian, and with the
> libsmbios-bin package I have a tool called `serviceTag` which spits
> out, and allows you to change, the Dell service tag for the box.
>
That sounds like what I want (although it appears that libsmbios-bin
package has been replaced with smbios-utils package). But if I
bootstrap
from the instructions on
http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/index.html,
with smbios-utils-bin installed I end up with no serviceTag tool,
although
although it's listed as one of the supported binaries on
http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/cmdlinetools.html.
Dell has done a better job than most vendors in Linux support, and Matt
Domsch in particular is a blessing on the Linux community, but their
repo
collection ought to be called the "Dell Ducktape Repositories".
Dependencies and obsolescences aren't dealt with consistently, presence
of
old repo files on a system can wreck the bus (and are not dealt with by
later bootstraps), etc....
Maybe I can get some IP cameras installed in the data center so I can
read
the asset tags off the front of the systems.....
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