On 5/12/2009 10:22 PM, Frank Sorenson wrote:
How about using:
dmidecode -s system-uuid
The -s system-uuid shortcut only appears to be available on non
red-hat based dmidecode versions. The UUID can still be returned by
greping for 'uuid':
/usr/sbin/dmidecode | grep -i uuid
Many of
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Merrill Oveson wrote:
Is the serial number of the motherboard unique?
I need a way to uniquely identify a computer (PC) from all other
computers
(PCs) in the world.
I thought about using MAC address - but what if the computer doesn't
have
jes...@confettiantiques.com wrote:
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Merrill Oveson wrote:
Then I thought all computers must have a motherboard - so why not use
the
serial number from it?
Good idea, or is there something better?
Yes, that would work good. And the MAC address can
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 16:16 -0600, Shane Hathaway wrote:
jes...@confettiantiques.com wrote:
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Merrill Oveson wrote:
Then I thought all computers must have a motherboard - so why not use
the
serial number from it?
Good idea, or is there
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Merrill Oveson wrote:
Is the serial number of the motherboard unique?
I need a way to uniquely identify a computer (PC) from all other computers
(PCs) in the world.
I thought about using MAC address - but what if the computer doesn't have
Is the serial number of the motherboard unique?
I need a way to uniquely identify a computer (PC) from all other computers
(PCs) in the world.
I thought about using MAC address - but what if the computer doesn't have a
network card?
Then I thought all computers must have a motherboard - so why
If it doesn't have a NIC, does it matter whether it's unique? Generate a random
MAC, and
store it. Or generate a UUID on first-run.
On Mon, May 11, 2009 2:41 pm, Merrill Oveson wrote:
Is the serial number of the motherboard unique?
I need a way to uniquely identify a computer (PC) from all
Merrill Oveson wrote:
Good idea, or is there something better?
I don't know of any workable way of doing this. Every piece of
information can be faked or virtualized. I've been using VMs for years
to keep node-locked software running after the original hardware failed.
If you wanted to do
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Merrill Oveson move...@gmail.com wrote:
I need a way to uniquely identify a computer (PC) from all other computers
(PCs) in the world.
Is it too low-tech to buy a roll of asset tags and stick them on the
PC before deploying them?
JP
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