Easiest way to remotely get a service tag?

[Aaron]

Also previously mentioned in this list was this method (if you dont need 
the express service tag and just the serial):

dmidecode | awk --posix '/Serial Number: [A-Z,0-9]{7}/{print $3; exit}'

No dell utilities needed.


t m wrote:
> The poster who suggested installing Dell's libsmbios package has the
> right idea.  Assuming the 1850 is supported (I just tried on a 1950),
> you will want to use the /usr/bin/getSystemId utility installed by
> this package:
>
> ]# /usr/bin/getSystemId
> Libsmbios:    0.13.10
> System ID:    0xXXXX
> Service Tag:  XXXXXX
> Express Service Code: XXXXXXXXXXX
> Product Name: PowerEdge 1950
> BIOS Version: 1.3.7
> Vendor:       Dell Inc.
> Is Dell:      1
>
>
>
> 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.
>>
>> So far I've tried :
>> - delldset_v1.4.0.8.bin : The "chassis" text files are all empty.
>> - dell-pediags-linux-2.9.0.267-A00.tar.gz : Didn't report it.
>> - ipmitool fru : Got many serial numbers, but not the service tag.
>>
>> My last option will be to bother someone on site to read the service
>> tag from the chassis, but since this has been a somewhat recurrent
>> topic for me over the years, I was wondering...
>>
>> I've found a post somewhere about someone seeing it with "ipmitool
>> sysinfo", but my version doesn't seem to support that (RHEL4).
>>
>> Matthias
>>
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