Easiest way to remotely get a service tag?

[Stephane Billiart]

On 9/28/07, Matthias Saou
<thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to know the service tag of a remote PowerEdge 1850 in order to
> get one of its hard drives changed. What is the easiest way to get is?
> Installing a whole lot of extra packages isn't an option because of its
> production nature.
>

Attached is a Perl script I use to do that with ipmitool on CentOS 4.
You can also get the info through lshw.

HTH,

--
Stephane
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