Hardware Serial Numbers Linux Command to Retrieve<\/p>\n
Ever needed to obtain the serial number (or other details) for a remote server? Couldn\u2019t be bothered to walk\/run\/drive\/fly all the way there just to read a sticky label on the back or bottom of said server? Read on then.
\nThe command you want to run, as root, is dmidecode. For example, to get the make and model and serial number of a server, do this:
\ndmidecode -t system
\nThe result will be similar to:
\n# dmidecode 2.11
\nSMBIOS 2.5 present.<\/p>\n
Handle 0x0002, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
\nSystem Information
\n Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
\n Product Name: Vostro 1720
\n Version: Null
\n Serial Number: 996C4L1
\n UUID: Not Settable
\n Wake-up Type: Power Switch
\n SKU Number: Null
\n Family: Vostro<\/p>\n
Handle 0x000F, DMI type 12, 5 bytes
\nSystem Configuration Options
\n Option 1: Jumper settings can be described here.<\/p>\n
Handle 0x0018, DMI type 32, 20 bytes
\nSystem Boot Information
\n Status: No errors detected
\nOther options for the -t parameter are:
\nbios \u2013 tells you all about your bios.
\nsystem \u2013 tells you about the system hardware.
\nbaseboard \u2013 all about the mother board.
\nchassis \u2013 all you need to know about the \u201cbox\u201d the system is made up of.
\nprocessor \u2013 fairly obvious.
\nmemory \u2013 again, fairly obvious.
\ncache \u2013 information about your CPU cache.
\nconnector \u2013 what sockets are present on the computer. USB, firewire, ethernet etc.
\nslot \u2013 appears to be the bus information, and voltages present, supplied etc.
\nThere\u2019s brief help available:
\ndmidecode –help<\/p>\n
Usage: dmidecode [OPTIONS]
\nOptions are:
\n -d, –dev-mem FILE Read memory from device FILE (default: \/dev\/mem)
\n -h, –help Display this help text and exit
\n -q, –quiet Less verbose output
\n -s, –string KEYWORD Only display the value of the given DMI string
\n -t, –type TYPE Only display the entries of given type
\n -u, –dump Do not decode the entries
\n –dump-bin FILE Dump the DMI data to a binary file
\n –from-dump FILE Read the DMI data from a binary file
\n -V, –version Display the version and exit
\nHowever, to find out the different types you can supply, you need to supply an erroneous type:
\ndmidecode -t left_leg<\/p>\n
Invalid type keyword: left_leg
\nValid type keywords are:
\n bios
\n system
\n baseboard
\n chassis
\n processor
\n memory
\n cache
\n connector
\n slot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hardware Serial Numbers Linux Command to Retrieve<\/p>\n
Ever needed to obtain the serial number (or other details) for a remote server? Couldn\u2019t be bothered to walk\/run\/drive\/fly all the way there just to read a sticky label on the back or bottom of said server? Read on then. The command you want to run, as root, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7074,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073\/revisions\/7074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}