Easiest way to remotely get a service tag?

Daniel_Shaw at Dell.com Daniel_Shaw at Dell.com
Fri Sep 28 04:36:23 CDT 2007



> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Matthias Saou
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 9:52 AM

> 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?

A Command dmidecode. More precisely try:

 dmidecode |grep -m1 "Serial Number: [A-Z,0-9]\{7\}" |awk '{print $3}'

Cheers,
Daniel



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